MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

PRESENTED BY:- JASDEEP KAUR

.net trainee(HCL CDC ,Mohali)

Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

What is MNP ?MNP – Mobile Number Portability is defined as:Ability of a cellular mobile service user to change his/her subscription to another cellular network operator while retaining his/her original directory number (including the Network Dialing Code/Operator prefix)

Classification of number portability services

There are three number portability services

Operator portability Location portability Service portability

Operator Portability Service

It refers to the ability of an end user to retain the same telephone number when changing from one operator to another. It is also referred to as ‘service provider number portability.

Location Portability

It refers to the ability of an end user to retain the same telephone number when changing from one physical location to another without necessarily changing their operator. 

Service Portability

It refers to the ability of an end user to retain the same telephone number when changing from one type of service to another without necessarily changing their operator.(e.g., from old telephone service to ISDN)

Commonly Used Terms

Donor: Existing Service provider who is

providing service to the customer.

Recipient: Service Provider where the customer wants to move for services.

Port In: Process of activating a subscriber on the recipient’s network.

Port Out: Process of deactivating a subscriber from the donor's network .

Commonly Used Terms

Snapback: Process of returning a mobilenumber to the original service provider (owner network) after deactivation on Recipient network.

Basic Architecture

MNP Database

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Number Portability Clearing House NPG: Number Portability Gateway

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Processing a Call to a Ported Number

Two stages are involved :

1. Interception Stage.

It’s the recognition that the call is toward a ported number. It can be performed at :

Donor switch (local exchange where the subscriber line was initially attached before being ported),

Transit switch , originating switch (the switch from which the calling party’s call originates).

2. Routeing Stage.

The call is re-routed from the intercepting switch to the new terminating switch.

Intercepting at the Donor Switch.

Intercepting at a Transit Switch.

Intercepting at the originating switch.

Implementing Mobile Number portability.

How to change your operator through mobile number portability.

PROCEDURE OF MNP.

Advantages of Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

You can shift your old mobile service provider to new better mobile service portability, keeping your mobile number unchanged.

The porting transaction charge is very low, just Rs. 19. Thus it is quite affordable.

The formalities involved in MNP are quite nominal. You have to just send a SMS followed by the filling up of customer application form for MNP.

The whole process of switching mobile operators will take of maximum number of seven days only.

There are approximately 700 million mobile users countrywide with about 10 operators in each circle. Thus MNP is going to prove a great benefit to them.

Disadvantages

To bring higher marketing expenses for mobile operators followed by lower profits.

MNP could be a headache to police department because the criminals can misuse the portability duration of 90 days.

MNP is that you lose all your remaining balance in your prepaid account on porting to new number.