A New Revolution coming in Indian Mobile Telecom Industry called Mobile Number Portability

India All set to welcome Mobile Number Portability service. Finally users will get the rights from Mobile Telecom Operators and they can change the operators without changing their number from 20/01/2011.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), today announced for the implementation of the Pan India Mobile Number Portability (MNP) which would come into force all over the country from January 20. MNP was launched in Haryana Telecom circle on 25th November 2010. In a bid to Ancash the up-coming pan India Mobile Number Portability launch, all the leading mobile service operators already kicked off their MNP Campaign over Electronic & Print media as well as social networking sites like twitter and Facebook. Vodafone and Idea Cellular have also come up with a Toll Free MNP Helpline with pan-India number.



How to get MNP?

Send SMS “PORT” followed by Mobile Number to short code 1900. Based on this subscriber will get a unique porting code as SMS from the existing service provider. The consumer can then make an application in the prescribed form mentioning the code to the selected new service provider for porting of number.