The Number of Unhappy Mobile Service users crossed 64 lakh Nationwide by end of 31st March 2011.
Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka and Rajasthan telecom circles has the Highest Number of Mobile service subscribers willing to change their current operators through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Service.
As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of March 2011 about 64.23 lakh subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number.
Out of these requests around 6.17 lakh mobile subscribers in Gujarat circle switch to other operator while 5.49 lakh in Rajasthan, 5.29 lakh in Karnataka, 4.40 lakh in Maharashtra & Goa and 4.33 lakh pertains to Haryana wherein MNP was implemented from 25th Nov. 2010.
In rest of the country, in MNP Zone-I (Northern & Western India) maximum number of requests have been received in Gujarat (6.17 lakh) followed by Rajasthan (5.49 lakh) whereas in MNP Zone-II (Southern & Eastern India) maximum number of requests have been received in Karnataka ( 5.29 lakh) followed by Tamil Nadu Service area(4.74 lakh).
The status of MNP requests in various service areas is given below:
