TRAI in a very tough decision unveils the draft norms regulations for the implementations for the number portability allowing consumers to change their telecom service providers retaining their old number. This service was quite in demand from several years and recently it was announced by the TRAI that new service will be first be launched in some metros and states in next year.

The guidelines proposed  by the TRAI concludes that every consumer who wants to change its provider would have to pay some fees though the amount is not yet cleared but it seems that it will be around 200 to 450, according to some telecom gurus, Once the service is changed he/she must remain with service provider for 90 days if he wish to change it again. There would also be written undertaking with the existing service provider before swiching to new, and the whole process of identity verification, bill clearance will be redone before the changing process completed. Though, the time span will be only 5 days to complete all these process.

For this purpose the Department of Telecom (DoT) has already appointed two companies — Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnect — to be the MNP service provider, manage day-to-day management and implementation, and also maintain the database of all numbers.

Though this service is quite awaited for a long time and now it has somehow finalized, the matter which will be under observation will be “how the established companies like Airtel, Vodafone etc. handle this whole matter”  and for some newbies like Aircel, virgin or other this will be definitely a good deal ……..

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