Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced a new change which will bring some joy for Mobile Network Users just before the beginning of ‘New Year‘. TRAI has made few changes in Mobile Number Portability (MNP) System which allows users to port their mobile number easier than before.
This announcement has been done at that point of time when Telecommunications Network Service Provider Companies like Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea have put in the extra pressure of minimum Rs.35 Mandatory Recharge on their users. Network companies have taken this step to focus on beneficial users and to increase the Average Revenue per User (ARPU) as well.
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| TRAI has announced changes which will bring some joy for Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL & JIO Users just before the beginning of ‘New Year‘. |
TRAI has introduced this change in Mobile Number Portability to make process faster and easier than before so that customer can switch one to other network within same circle within 2 days instead of 15 days but there are few conditions as follows:
In the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Seventh Amendment) Regulations, 2018, TRAI said, "Through this regulation (amendment), a major shift in the mechanism for generating Unique Porting Code (UPC) has been provisioned."
TRAI has reduced the validity of the unique porting code (UPC) to four days from 15 days, except for in J&K, Assam and North East. Moreover, the process for withdrawal of porting requests has also been made simple.
"To make the porting process faster and convenient, for all the cases except corporate porting cases, in the revised process for validation of conditions and generation & delivery of UPC. It has been provisioned to establish a query response mechanism to enable the Mobile Number Portability Service Provider (MNPSP) to query the database of the Donor Operator on real time basis to obtain the response for the queries. Based on the result of queries made by MNPSP and fulfillment of other prescribed conditions, the allocation and delivery of UPC shall be ensured by MNPSP," it said further.
The official release said, "Porting timeline of 2 working days has been provisioned for the requests of Intra-Licensed Service Area (Intra-LSA) numbers except the requests made under corporate category and the timelines of 4 working days has been provisioned for all the porting requests of Inter-Licensed Service Area (Inter-LSA) numbers and corporate category."
Other major changes include: Validity of UPC for 4 days only, in place of 15 days earlier, except for Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East The process for withdrawal of porting requests has been made simpler and quicker through SMS.
Corporate porting:
Present limit of 50 numbers in single authorization letter has been enhanced to 100 numbers perauthorization letter. - Provisions for the Financial Disincentives have been broadened upon contravention of the provisions of MNP Regulations.
Post implementation of this regulation (amendment), TRAI said appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) parameters will be devised by the Authority to monitor the role of MNPSPs and Access Providers in the new scenario.
Now the perception is that TRAI has brought this regulation when the companies like Airtel, Vodafone & Idea are putting pressure of mandatory recharge on their users. Now question arises, how this amendment affect these companies, however it is a future tale but you can share your thoughts in the comment box right now, so type your comment and share to us.
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