Mobile Number Portablity (MNP) Service In India

What exactly is Mobile Number Portability ?


Well, it let’s you change your telecom operator without changing your number, so you can for example switch from Airtel to Vodafone without changing your mobile number.




This service was launched by recently by IDEA on 25th november 2010 but only at Harayana Telecom Circle. Soon after the service was launched, we did notice IDEA was campaigning new Advertisement to switch to IDEA for better service or switch to IDEA is current service provider was not good for him/her.




Once this service enters full face rollout, then we can see telecom operators needs to perform better to hold their customer, else customer may opt to move another operator with MNP (Mobile Number Portability).


For customer though MNP would be best way to switch service as it don't require changing current mobile number, but MNP will take 3-10 days to migrate to another telecom operator after a minimal service charge for MNP service and a filled form for MNP request.


Anyway we will wait how MNP would be have effect on telecom operators and way customer use it.