Indian Telecom Operators Witnessed a Whopping 5.67 Million MNP Requests in December 2016

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has received a total of 5.67 million Mobile Number Portability requests in December 2016. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 249.15 million at the end of November 2016 to 254.82 million at the end of December 2016.

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The MNP service in India is divided into two zones: Zone-I and Zone-II. In the MNP Zone-I, regions under Northern and Western India will be covered, and this zone received the highest number of MNP requests compared to Zone-II.

To be precise, In MNP Zone-I, the largest number of applications till date have been received by Rajasthan with the request number standing at 21.59 million, which is closely followed by Gujarat with 18.58 million requests.

Also Read: India Adds 5.15 Million To The Mobile Subscriber Base In January 2017: COAI

The MNP Zone-II covers the Southern and Eastern India regions, and the highest number of requests have been received by Karnataka of 28.33 million. The second place goes to Andhra Pradesh with a total MNP requests of 23.38 million.

ZONE-IZONE-IZONE-IIZONE-II
Service AreaNumber of Porting RequestsService Area Number of Porting Requests
Delhi10608914Andhra Pradesh 23382030
Gujarat18577555Assam1295717
Haryana9998112 West Bengal 13705847
Himachal Pradesh9998112Bihar9620493
Jammu & Kashmir102820Karnataka28327770
Maharashtra17355988Kerala7263310
Mumbai14174072Kolkata5397053
Punjab9027824Madhya Pradesh 17880321
Rajasthan21590495North East 503415
Uttar Pradesh - East12510161Orissa5188002
Uttar Pradesh - West 11506440Tamil Nadu 15890980
Total126,365,744Total128,454,938
TOTAL[Zone-I+Zone-II]254,820,682
December 2016 Addition5,667,475

The Mobile Network Portability service was initially started back in the year 2010 in Haryana and spread across every state of India at the beginning of 2011. However, at that point of time, MNP was available only as Intra-service portability. It was in 2015; we got to see the service being enabled as Inter-service portability, which means that subscribers can retain their mobile number when relocating from one area of the country to another.

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