Customers will be asked to pay one time porting charge in order to migrate their number. Outgoing operator will not get benefited in any way, No re-leaving charges or benefits.
There are 3 transactions involved in the transfer of a mobile number
to another operator, of which two - the per port transaction charge and
the dipping charge - are between the participating operators and mobile
number portability service providers. The subscriber who intends to shift to a new operator and retain her existing number will need to pay only the porting charge. Despite varying opinions on porting
charges of the 13 telcos - from a high of Rs. 200 to Rs. 20, TRAI has capped the
porting charge at only Rs. 19. The regulator has also noted that
operators are free to charge any amount less than this. Considering the mobile customer base of india with 460 million, and 10-12 millions every month, MNP has opened up host of revenue opportunity to MNP operators.
The MNP operators in the two zones of the country are to provide centralized database, query response and clearing house to enable correct routing and termination of calls by Access (Basic/Mobile) service providers and international long distance (ILD) operators post MNP implementation. The whole network in the country is to be ready and tested before the MNP service is implemented. When the service providers are ready with their own inter-operator test results, a complete Acceptance Test (A/T) is to be carried out by DoT across the networks of all the concerned service providers in all the service areas before MNP service is implemented.
