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The story that has been floating around for a month now has finally been confirmed. Vodafone will launch the iPhone in India and other countries such as Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey (reports Business Standard)
 
The price of the iPhone has been unconfirmed. Earlier it had been reported that [...]

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.

Number Portability allows one to retain one’s number while switching the operators. So, if your Reliance Mobile customer care is a waste, the billing is erroneous (to put it politely) and there are just no Nokia N-Series handsets available, you can happily switch over to a Vodafone network, while still retaining your three year old number, just in case you ex decides to call you sometime.