22-09-2012, 03:07 PM
TRAI Issues draft Regulations on Mobile Number Portability
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1. The draft regulations lay down the business process for implementing
mobile number portability. They cover the following important points:-
Subscriber’s eligibility conditions for porting.
* Rights obligations and duties of service providers
* Rights, obligations and duties of Donor operator, where the
subscriber exists before porting
* Rights, obligations and duties of recipient operator, where the
subscriber moves after porting
* Rights, obligations and duties of Mobile Number Portability Service
Provider (MNPSP), who facilitates the mobile number portability
through its clearing house and Number portability Database
centre.
* Porting Process guidelines which describe the entire porting
process right from the time subscriber requests for porting his
mobile number till the porting takes place.
2. The Authority had issued a consultation paper on MNP on 22nd July
2005 and based on the inputs received from the stakeholders and its
own analysis, the Authority submitted its recommendations to DoT on
8th March 2006. In these recommendations, the Authority had
recommended implementation of MNP in the whole country in a
phased manner, starting from Metros and A category service areas
followed by B and C category service areas.
3. The DoT had communicated its acceptance to the Authority’s
recommendations on 10th December 2007. DoT had also accepted
the suggestion of the Authority that a Steering Committee be formed
under the aegis of TRAI, to deliberate upon various issues involved
in the implementation of MNP in the country. Accordingly, the TRAI
constituted a Steering Committee consisting of representatives from
TEC, Service Providers and their Associations. Based on the report
of the Steering Committee and decision of the Authority, a draft
Request for Proposal (RFP) was prepared and submitted to DoT for
initiating the process for selection of MNP operator. Subsequently,
the DOT issued guidelines for MNP service license on 1st August
2008. The DoT guidelines envisaged geographical division of the
country into two Number Portability Zones (zone 1 & zone 2), each
consisting of 11 licensed service areas. Subsequently, one operator
in each zone was selected (M/s Syniverse Technologies(I) Pvt. Ltd
was granted licence for operating in Zone 1 (Northern and Western
India) and M/s MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions(I) Pvt. Ltd
was granted licence for MNP Service Zone 2(Eastern and Southern
India)), based on the selection parameters set in the guidelines for
MNP service license.