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MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY- The Revolution Which Touched The Most
Gauraan
3
rd
year
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, PunjabSlide2
NUMBER ADDRESSING SERVICE
Signaling network is the nerve center of communication
From PSTN to NGN, from GSM/CDMA to 3G, from fixed IN (Intelligent Network) to mobile IN
Number Addressing Services are enabled via the signaling network
MNP (Mobile Number Portability)
Users rely more and more on their communication numbers
FNR (Flexible Number Routing)
For redundant numbers which cannot be otherwise used in different HLR
SMR (Short Message Routing)
For load sharing and safer SMSSlide3
WHAT IS IT?
“MNP”
Enables the mobile phone end-user
Switch from one mobile operator to the other,
Or from one cellular mobile technology to another of the same service Provider
Within a
telecom circle
,
Without compromising on quality, reliability and operational convenience
While retaining the same mobile number
Irrespective of the mobile technology Slide4
TELECOM CIRCLE IN INDIA
TELCORDIA:
• Kolkata • Tamil Nadu including Chennai • Andhra Pradesh • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal • Assam • Bihar • North East • Orissa
SYNIVERSE:
• Delhi • Mumbai • Maharashtra • Gujarat • Haryana • Punjab • Rajasthan • UP (East) • UP (West) • Himachal Pradesh • J&K LSAs (License service areas)Slide5
HOW TO PORT
Two ways : 'Recipient-Led' porting and 'Donor-Led’ porting.
'Donor-Led’: The customer wishing to port his/her number is required to contact the Donor to obtain a Porting
Authorisation
Code (“PAC”) which he/she then has to give to the Recipient. Once having received the PAC the Recipient continues the port process by contacting the Donor.
'Recipient-Led’: The international and European standard is for a customer wishing to port his/her number to contact the new provider (Recipient) who will then arrange necessary process with the old provider (Donor). UK is the only country to not implement a Recipient-Led system.
Position in India: We follow UK though with a Unique Porting Code (“UPC”) which is very similar to PACSlide6
THE TECHNICAL ASPECT
Routing of calls or mobile messages (SMS, MMS) to a number once it has been ported
Two ways: via central database (“CDB”) and via Indirect Routing
CDB
Network operator makes copies of CDB and queries it to find out which network to send a call to. This is also known as All Call Query (“ACQ”) and is highly efficient and scalable. Majority of the established and upcoming MNP systems across the world are based on this ACQ/CDB method of call routing.
INDIRECT ROUTING
The calls to a number once it has been ported are still routed via the Donor network.
It is highly inefficient as it is wasteful of transmission and switching capacity. Because of its Donor dependent nature, Indirect Routing also means that if the Donor network develops a fault or goes out of business, the customers who have ported out of that network will lose incoming calls to their numbers.Slide7
WHY PORT?
Benefits to mobile network providers and the mobile industry:
Updated technology and latest sophistication prevent stagnation of resource up gradation
Healthy competition between providers
Benefits to subscribers:
Better quality & bouquet of value-added services offered by any operator
Exercise choices and get products and services in accordance with preference
Competitive tariff package will be offered by all providers
Stiff competition leading to better facilities
Enhanced customer satisfaction
Growth of Telecom Sector
Affordable portability Slide8
COMPETITION
“Competition enhances the efficiency of businesses and improves the availability and quality of products and services. The telecom sector is a prime example where the fruits of competition are visible to all.”
- Dr.
Manmohan
Singh
“The competition in the telecom sector has intensified in the last 10 years, with rates reaching the lowest level.”
- Communications and IT Minister
Kapil
Sibal
Role of
VAS
and MNP
“It is believed that MNP will trigger competition.”
- Dr.
Manmohan
SinghSlide9
VALUE ADDED SERVICES (VAS)
Not a part of the basic voice offer
Are availed off separately by the end user
It allows the mobile operators to develop another stream of revenue
Contributes around 9-10% of the revenues of different
Telcos
FACTORS DRIVING VAS
Booming economy
Increasing comfort levels with basic mobility services
Personalization of the digital world and digital devices
Reduction in call rates & CPP initiation
Focus on movies & music
SMS contestsSlide10
THE LEGAL ASPECT
Anti – Competitive Behavior:
Anti-competitive agreements
Abuse of dominant position
Combinations (Mergers and Acquisitions)
ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITIONSlide11
SOME FACTS
COUNTRY
TIME TAKEN
Other remarks
United Kingdom
5 working days
Does not use ACQ/CDB
United States
of America
2 hours
Republic of Ireland
20 minutes
Australia
3 minutes
New Zealand
Few seconds
Canada
10-20 minutes
India
7 days
Service Disruption is only for 2
hours
Customers can port between prepay and post pay options
and from
CDMA to GSM and vice-versa.
Pakistan
4 days
Customers can port between prepay and post pay options. Slide12
REGULATION
TELCORDIA and SYNIVERSE
TELECOMMUNICATION MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY REGULATIONS, 2009 (8 of 2009)
Second amendment on 24 November, 2010
100-day agenda of the Telecommunications and IT Ministry
New Telecom Policy (NTP)-2011
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI’s) recommendations
Recognition of telecom as infrastructure and as an essential service
Encouraging green telecom
aim to balance low rates, robust industry and government’s share of revenues.Slide13
WINDING UP BY EMPHASIZING ON THE NEED OF A CHECKING MECHANISM Slide14
Eligibility6. Eligibility Criteria for making a porting request.-- Every subscriber shall
be eligible
to make a request
for porting
his mobile number:
Provided
that---
(
a) a period of ninety days has expired from the date of activation of his
mobile connection
in the case of
a mobile
number not ported earlier; or from the date
of activation
of his mobile number after its last porting, in the case of a
mobile number
which has been ported earlier, as the case may be;
(
b) there are no outstanding payments due to the Donor Operator by way
of pending
bills or bills, as the case may be, issued as per the normal billing
cycle but
before the date of application for porting
;
(
c) there is no pending request for change of ownership of the mobile number ;
(
d) the mobile number sought to be ported is not sub-
judice
;
(
e) porting of the concerned mobile number has not been prohibited by a
Court of
Law.Slide15
Criteria for rejection
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. Grounds for rejection of porting request by Donor Operator.--- A request
for porting
of a mobile number shall not be rejected by a Donor Operator on any
ground other
than the following grounds, namely
:-
(
a) there are outstanding payments due from the subscriber by way of pending bill
or bills
, as the case may be, issued as per the normal billing cycle but before the date
of application
for porting;
(b) the porting request has been made before the expiry of a period of ninety
days from
the date of activation of a new connection;
(c) a request for change of ownership of the mobile number is under process;
(d) the mobile number sought to be ported is sub-
judice
;
(e) porting of the mobile number has been prohibited by a Court of Law;
(f) subscriber has applied for inter-service area porting;
(g) the unique porting code mentioned in the porting request does not match with
the unique
porting code allocated by the Donor Operator for the mobile number sought to
be ported
;
(h) there are subsisting contractual obligations in respect of which an exit clause
has been
provided in the subscriber agreement but the subscriber has not complied with
such exit
clause:
Provided
that where the Donor operator rejects a porting request on the ground
of subsisting
contractual obligations, he shall indicate the full details of such
contractual obligations
.Slide16
MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY
highly consumer-friendly initiative
acts as a catalyst for the service providers to improve their quality of service
available only within a given licensed service area
The Subscriber who wishes to port his mobile number should approach the Recipient operator
withdraw his porting request within 24 hours of its submission to the Recipient Operator
Some experts are saying that MNP
won’t be a game changer, it will just make a bit initial impact and everything will flatten out in the long run eventually
“A lot was expected to happen on the first day when the mobile number portability India was launched but there hasn’t been much buzz seen around.”