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Number Portability : TRAI Recommends by June 2009
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We have already discussed the frustrations that lead to the demands for Number Portability. TRAI is pretty serious about Mobile Number Portability (MNP), it seems. In its latest recommendations TRAI has suggested - favoring the MNP implementation by June 2009 – licensing of Mobile Number Portability Clearing House Administrator (MCHA) through a competitive bidding process.
No transfer of balance will be permitted form the old account to the new one, in case of transfer form one provider to another, TRAI said
“Subscriber has to either consume the balance amount or forgo it. There will be ‘break before make’ arrangement for completion of porting process — that is connection from donor network to be disconnected first and then connection with recipient network will be made. However, efforts should be made so that break period should not be for more than two hours,”
TRAI has already forwarded the Department of Telecom the draft Request for Proposal(RFP) for selecting an operator responsible for providing end-to-end mobile number portability(MNP) in the country.
TRAI said
“For MNP implementation in India, the neutral third party should own and operate MNP Clearing house and logically centralised data base. The company will not have substantial equity (over 10 per cent stake) directly or indirectly in any of the telecom service provider in India. Similarly, any telecom service provider will not have substantial equity, directly or indirectly in the company”
A foreign direct investment cap of 74% is kept for the neutral third party.
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