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Mobile Number Portability, which was supposed to be launched by December 31st 2009 is going to be delayed till April 2010. Government had earlier set a deadline for Mobile Number Portability to December 2009 for metros and June 2010 for Non-metros.

At a recent meeting chaired by the DoT secretary on MNP, both MTNL and BSNL had said they would not be ready to offer the facility before April.

Following this, the DoT set up a coordination committee with BSNL and MTNL and two MNP service providers– MITS and Synverse so that the proposal will not be derailed.

While MTNL said its fixed line network being a legacy network requires a lot of time, effort and cost to upgrade it to make it MNP-compliant, BSNL cited a slew of impediments, ranging from lack of a draft interconnect agreement to the issues regarding tariffs for off-net and on-net, as its network will not support differential charging.

Technically, MNP is applicable to all types of telecom offering, be it mobile, WLL (wireless in local-loop) or fixed line services.

Via ET

On another news, India now has more than 500 million telecom subscribers and very soon ( as early as Jan 1, 2010), mobile numbers in India might migrate to 11 digit number pattern.

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