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Just gone through the news in yahoo....thought to share it with all...

If you’re dissatisfied with poor service from your current telecom service provider, you don’t need to bear with it anymore. Just dump it and go for another one. And no, you won’t have to change your number every time you switch providers.

After a two year delay, Mobile Number Portability (MNP) will be launched in Rohtak, Haryana today. Telecom Ministry officials say that this system is likely to be launched in other parts of the country by the end of December provided the operators are ready with their network.

Market analysts believe that this would lead to another tariff war as telecom operators would like to retain their existing customers.

Aditya Birla Group’s Idea Cellular Network is confident of attracting users once MNP is rolled out.

“Our focus is to provide good network and customer services. Though we are not launching any new plan or tariff package, we are confident that large number of customers who want to have better network would switch to Idea,” the firm’s chief corporate affairs officer Rajat Mukarji told.

So how does MNP work? Well, all you need to do is send an SMS from your phone to 1900. Your present company will reply with a unique porting code. Use that code while filling out a detailed form for the provider you want to shift to. Within 48 hours, that company will take over all your cell services. This may cost you a meagre Rs 19.

Your cell number will be switched off for only one hour. All bills after that are payable to your new provider. Once a subscriber ports his number to the new operator, then, he will have to wait for at least 90 days before he can change his operator again. While you can shift from a GSM service to CDMA or vice versa, you cannot shift from one state to another.

 Top Comment : Sharad Gupta   | 11 25 2010 10:23:31 +0000
Yes, this is a good news, now this services is being started from Haryana and will spread all over india very soon...
 
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13 comments on "NUMBER PORTABILITY IS HERE, FINALLY."
  Commented by  Abdul Raheem.Syed, Technical Lead-QA, Roamware Inc.    | 12 04 2010 11:44:02 +0000
@ rakeshbhatnagar - how this is going to help the people travelling across India? 
  Commented by  Pradyumna Roy, Module Lead    | 12 01 2010 10:44:02 +0000
MNP the much awaited thing in India, the facility of retention of existing mobile number despite moving to a new telecom/Mobile service provider will help in increasing competition between the service providers and acts as a catalyst for the service providers to improve their quality of service.
  Commented by  Abhishek Gupta, Software Engineer, Hewitt Associates    | 12 01 2010 06:36:06 +0000
can MNP be done with a non 3G sim and a 3G sim......?
  Commented by  Rathin Deb, Resident Manager, Tower Infotech Ltd.    | 12 01 2010 06:16:14 +0000
Yes this is good news.If  the service providers dont mend their way we can go for a change probably with better service and cheaper rates.
  Commented by  rakeshbhatnagar, GM Projects., wig brothers india pvt.ltd.    | 11 27 2010 16:53:32 +0000
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YES MANOJ EVERY BODY WAS WAITING KEENLY SPECIALLY PROJECT PEOPLE AND PEOPLE TRAVELLING ALL OVER INDIA FREQUENTLY NEEDED IT . VERY NICE NEWS.
  Commented by  SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Consultant, Project Management Consultancy Firm    | 11 27 2010 13:32:39 +0000
Now it creates competition among service providers to give good service to the customers.
Good news for customers/consumers.
  Commented by  Nitin Mehra, Software Developer, ROBOMAN MICROSYSTEMS    | 11 26 2010 20:01:15 +0000
Just another toy for people like us. They just give us the simple one and We treat everything is very special. Just to take a look. US used cdma because they know digital technology is good all the other world used gsm. We have to walk little fast to make us remarkable.
  Commented by  Nohar Singh Dhruv, Assistant Engineer, PMGSY    | 11 26 2010 16:02:07 +0000
MNP is surely benificial for CUST-MER... :P
Hope for the best..
Now company will take CUST-MER seriously...
  Commented by  NATTERAJA R. ARIKRISHNAN, AREA SALES MANGER, UNIFLEX CABLES LTD    | 11 25 2010 17:27:29 +0000
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Good news and in the right direction. It will motivate the service provider to furnish best services to their customers in the wake of fearing to loose them.

Thanks for the referral Mr.Manoj Kumar.
  
  Commented by  Wajid.Pathan, B.Tech/B.E., ,Pune,Engineering Professional    | 11 25 2010 16:00:35 +0000
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something good for customers hope so we all will be able to take advantage of it
  Commented by  Ajay Ziz, Dy. Registrar,, University of Jammu    | 11 25 2010 11:18:28 +0000
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the core operator shalt still tinker with secs ..specs & manipulation via frills leading to doctored  mobile bills ......
  Commented by  Naushad H.L., Creative Director, MAD COMMUNICATION    | 11 25 2010 10:36:27 +0000
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THANK GOD... I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE AGES !

Now these Operators will have a run for their money & will not take CONSUMERS LIGHTLY. 
  Commented by  Sharad Gupta, Software Developer, Tripura Technologies, Hyderabad    | 11 25 2010 10:23:31 +0000
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Yes, this is a good news, now this services is being started from Haryana and will spread all over india very soon...
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