19-09-2014, 09:35 AM
“MOBILE NUMBER PORTIBILITY”
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ABSTRACT
Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing his/her telephone number. This paper describes and analyzes mobile number portability routing mechanisms and their implementation costs. Cost recovery issues for number portability are discussed in this paper from a technical perspective. We note that rules for cost recovery also depend on business and regulatory factors that vary from country to country.
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). If the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no longer identify networks; mobile operators will increase termination charges, with ambiguous net effect on the surplus of mobile customers.
Mobile number portability (MNP) requires that mobile telephone customers can keep their telephone number–including the prefix–when switching from one provider of mobile Tele communications services to another. In the absence of MNP, customers have to give up their number and must adopt a new one when they switch operators. As a result, customers face switching costs associated with informing people about changing their number, printing new business cards, missing valuable calls from people that do not have the new number, etc. Based on these considerations, many regulatory authorities have imposed mandatory MNP–or are about to require its introduction–so as to reduce customers’ switching costs, attempting to make mobile telecommunications more competitive The world’s first country to introduce MNP was Singapore in 1997.
This paper introduces the concept of number portability, explains its different types and benefits, and the technical, operational, and economic issues that might arise out of its implementation in India. The specific issues such as ensuring tariff transparency, the National Numbering Plan, and regulating porting charges, etc. have been raised and will need careful consideration.
Introduction
Portability gives users the ability to change his service provider without changing his number. This encourages the customer to switch, increases competition in the market, and the customer enjoys better quality of service and better tariffs while at the same time operators are burdened with extra costs of implementing MNP, higher churn rates and serious efforts to retain their high revenue generating customers.
Considering all the technical and administrative decisions taken, there is a distinct long term vision with some sound assumptions about the future growth of the Indian mobile industry and investments made from the operator’s side.
All said, the implementation of MNP has been done with a lot of foresight and long term view for the mobile market although it would have been heartening to see some progress being made to facilitate number portability in the fixed networks also.
Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing his/her telephone number. Thispaper describes and analyzes mobile number portability routing mechanisms and their implementation costs. Cost recovery issues for number portability are discussed in this paper from a technical perspective. We note that rules for cost recovery also depend on business and regulatory factors that vary from country to country.
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). If the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no longer identify networks; mobile operators will increase termination charges, with ambiguous net effect on the surplus of mobile customers. or are about to require its introduction–so as to reduce customers’ switching costs,attempting to make mobile telecommunications more competitive The world’s first country to introduce MNP was Singapore
Advantages of Mobile number Portability:
• The best thing of this is that the service can be changes easily with the retain of the previous number and help a subscriber to get in touch with its friends and colleagues.
• As far as the pricing and the stickiness of the post paid connections in concerned, it will be quite reasonable for the customers and the call rates will be reduced because it will put pressure on the post paid companies which in turns develops a competition among the companies and allows them to reduce their calling rates.
• The new tariff plans will be introduced for the customers who are using this new service with some high speed value added services that provides the video calls and other so many facilities for the new customers.
• It will improve the quality of service for the customers by storing the details of the messages and contacts which is there in the previous SIM card by sending a request to the new service provider through the help of application form whose information is given below in switching operator section.
CONCLUSIONS
Mobile number portability is the facility which provide to customer to change their operator without changing their number. so tha is very beneficial to customer so customer to can use that is facility to avoid such type of operator problem i.e call drop, network issue etc. So that is very important process to customer
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ABSTRACT
Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing his/her telephone number. This paper describes and analyzes mobile number portability routing mechanisms and their implementation costs. Cost recovery issues for number portability are discussed in this paper from a technical perspective. We note that rules for cost recovery also depend on business and regulatory factors that vary from country to country.
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). If the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no longer identify networks; mobile operators will increase termination charges, with ambiguous net effect on the surplus of mobile customers.
Mobile number portability (MNP) requires that mobile telephone customers can keep their telephone number–including the prefix–when switching from one provider of mobile Tele communications services to another. In the absence of MNP, customers have to give up their number and must adopt a new one when they switch operators. As a result, customers face switching costs associated with informing people about changing their number, printing new business cards, missing valuable calls from people that do not have the new number, etc. Based on these considerations, many regulatory authorities have imposed mandatory MNP–or are about to require its introduction–so as to reduce customers’ switching costs, attempting to make mobile telecommunications more competitive The world’s first country to introduce MNP was Singapore in 1997.
This paper introduces the concept of number portability, explains its different types and benefits, and the technical, operational, and economic issues that might arise out of its implementation in India. The specific issues such as ensuring tariff transparency, the National Numbering Plan, and regulating porting charges, etc. have been raised and will need careful consideration.
Introduction
Portability gives users the ability to change his service provider without changing his number. This encourages the customer to switch, increases competition in the market, and the customer enjoys better quality of service and better tariffs while at the same time operators are burdened with extra costs of implementing MNP, higher churn rates and serious efforts to retain their high revenue generating customers.
Considering all the technical and administrative decisions taken, there is a distinct long term vision with some sound assumptions about the future growth of the Indian mobile industry and investments made from the operator’s side.
All said, the implementation of MNP has been done with a lot of foresight and long term view for the mobile market although it would have been heartening to see some progress being made to facilitate number portability in the fixed networks also.
Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing his/her telephone number. Thispaper describes and analyzes mobile number portability routing mechanisms and their implementation costs. Cost recovery issues for number portability are discussed in this paper from a technical perspective. We note that rules for cost recovery also depend on business and regulatory factors that vary from country to country.
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). If the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no longer identify networks; mobile operators will increase termination charges, with ambiguous net effect on the surplus of mobile customers. or are about to require its introduction–so as to reduce customers’ switching costs,attempting to make mobile telecommunications more competitive The world’s first country to introduce MNP was Singapore
Advantages of Mobile number Portability:
• The best thing of this is that the service can be changes easily with the retain of the previous number and help a subscriber to get in touch with its friends and colleagues.
• As far as the pricing and the stickiness of the post paid connections in concerned, it will be quite reasonable for the customers and the call rates will be reduced because it will put pressure on the post paid companies which in turns develops a competition among the companies and allows them to reduce their calling rates.
• The new tariff plans will be introduced for the customers who are using this new service with some high speed value added services that provides the video calls and other so many facilities for the new customers.
• It will improve the quality of service for the customers by storing the details of the messages and contacts which is there in the previous SIM card by sending a request to the new service provider through the help of application form whose information is given below in switching operator section.
CONCLUSIONS
Mobile number portability is the facility which provide to customer to change their operator without changing their number. so tha is very beneficial to customer so customer to can use that is facility to avoid such type of operator problem i.e call drop, network issue etc. So that is very important process to customer