Telecom regulator Trai on Thursday said the guidelines for mobile number portability are likely to be ready by August-end and asked operators to keep their networks ready to roll out the services quickly.
"We will have an open-house on the porting charges on August 11. Within two to three weeks from then, we will issue the final guidelines on mobile number portability. The clearing house and operators should be ready with their network so that after announcement of the guidelines the service could be implemented," Trai member RN Prabhakar said on the sidelines of a conference here. Telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura last month had said that mobile number portability will come by the year-end. Number portability allows subscribers to switch to another service provider or from one technology to another while retaining their mobile number. The Department of Telecommunications had issued guidelines for number protability implementation in August last year. Earlier in March, DoT selected two US companies -- Syniverse and Telcordia -- as technology providers, called as clearing house, for the implementation. Telcordia will implement the technology in south and east, while Syniverse would handle the services in the north and the western states. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director general TV Ramachandran said: "The telecom operators are actively working on that, but they still need some clarification. We don''t want to delay the number portability. We are comfortable with MNP coming in September." (07-Aug-09) Economic Times thans, mukesh jain. -- email: [email protected] mob: 919977165123 to read articles, circulars, books, titorials, and lot more related to PWD's visit my site: http://www.mukesh.myehome.in to know about my efforts of sketching the life of mumbai visit: http://www.themumbaicity.webs.com To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
