PRESENTATION ON

“MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY”

GUIDED BY SUBMITTED BY1) Aarti Muley2) Hili Markam3) Minali Jain4) Seema Thakur5) Swapnil Jain

‘Is it beneficial for the companies providing mobile services’

Mr.Sachin Khandelwal

“MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY “ means the facility

which allows a subscriber of a mobile telephone

server to retain his mobile telephone number when

he moves from one mobile telephone service provider

to another, irrespective of the mobile technology.

WHAT IS MNP ??

There are 3 types of Number portability:-

1. Service Provider

Portability

2. Location

Portability

3. Service

Portability

TERMINOLOGY"Donor Operator"- means a operator from whose network the subscriber is porting out.

“Recipient Operator" – means an Operator who will be providing mobile service to the subscriber after porting

Not Ported – Mobile Numbers belonging to BSNL. ( subscribers of 94 Series belonging to BSNL )

Port IN or Imported – Number ported into BSNL from another network. (98 series BSNL subs.)

Ported Out – Number Ported out to another N/w from BSNL. (94 series subscriber of Operator ‘X’ )

TERMINOLOGY

"Location Routing Number” means the code assigned to every Access Provider for the purpose of implementing Mobile Number Portability;

These are 4 digit codes and have been assigned by DOT.

They have been assigned LSA wise, Operator wise and technology wise

BSNL has been allocated 42 codes in total – 21 for GSM and 21 for CDMA.

TERMINOLOGY

TERMINOLOGY“Example of allocated Location Routing

Numbers”Sl. No.

Name of Licensee Company Service Area Type of Licence

Mobile Network

LRN

1 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Andhra Pradesh CMTS GSM 23922 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Andhra Pradesh CMTS CDMA 25433 Bharti Airtel Limited Andhra Pradesh UAS GSM 27244 Bharti Airtel Limited Assam UAS GSM 27255 BPL Mobile Comm. Ltd. Mumbai CMTS GSM 3026

There are basically 3 aspects to be taken care of by operators while implementing MNP :-

i. Commercial – Provisioning of port in and De provisioning of Port Out subscribers.

ii. Call Routing in MNP Scenario.

iii. Charging / Billing of subscribers for their usage. Other aspects like strategies for preventing port out and promoting port IN customers are vital but not in the scope of this session.

MNP Aspects

The salient features of the final guidelines issued by TRAI • MNP facility shall be available only within a given licensed service

area.

• A subscriber holding a mobile number is eligible to make a porting request only after 90 days of the date of activation of his mobile connection. If a number is already ported once, the number can again be ported only after 90 days from the date of the previous porting• Access Providers are required to implement All Call Query method.•The Originating operator shall be responsible to route the call to

correct terminating network.

• TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India) said that service

providers will be able to charge any amount less than or equal to

Rs19.

How ‘MNP’ is beneficial to customers?

• If you are not satisfied with your existing

provider,you don’t have to stay just to keep your

number for business purpose.

• The MNP service would force operators to retain

subscribers with various incentives & schemes

i.e,lowering down call & sms rates to retain their

subscribers.

• The service will be available to both prepaid &

postpaid users.

• With MNP consumers can move in between

operators,where they may get a better deal on tarrifs

or services with another operator etc..

Advantages of MNP• Mobiles subscribers would be able to switch service

provide while retaining their existing mobile number.

• You can switch from GSM to

CDMA.

• You cannot switch from one state to other which

would mean that you cannot have one no. across

the country.

Disadvantages of MNP

•If you decide to move from CDMA to GSM or vice versa

you will have to change your handset.

MNP & MCHA ZONES

MCHA Licensee for Zone 1 :- M/s. Syniverse Technologies (India) Private Limited.

MCHA Licensee for Zone 2 :- M/s. MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions India Pvt. Limited.

Zone 1 - STIPL Zone – II - MITS

Delhi Kolkata

Mumbai T.N including Chennai

Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh

Gujarat Karnataka

Haryana Kerala

Punjab Madhya Pradesh

Rajasthan West Bengal

Uttar Pradesh (E) Assam

Uttar Pradesh(W) Bihar

Himachal Pradesh North East

Jammu & Kashmir Orissa

CONCLUSION

It is beneficial to both consumer as well as company.

MNP offers flexibility to the mobile

subscriber to change his/her service provider.

It fuels competition among service providers

in a competitive market like India.

THANK YOU