Customers Can Now Port Out From One Network to Another in Two Days as per New MNP Rules from Trai

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After a long wait, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday revamped the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) rules. As per the new regulations, a customer can now port out from one network to another in just two days. Trai made the entire process faster and simpler and prescribed two days timeline for port out requests within a service area. Similarly, a timeline of four working days has been prescribed for requests for port out from one circle to other. The latest amendments to the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability regulations form part of the regulator's "continuous endeavour" to make the process more "subscriber-friendly", according to a statement by the telecom regulator.

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Telcos to Face Fine Up to Rs 10,000 for Wrongful Port Rejection

Each "wrongful rejection" of the request for porting will attract a penalty of up to Rs 10,000. "... porting timeline of two working days has been provisioned for the requests of Intra-Licensed Service Area (Intra-LSA) numbers except the requests made under corporate category and the timelines of four working days has been provisioned for all the porting requests of Inter-Licensed Service Area (Inter-LSA) numbers and corporate category," Trai said.

Besides this, other major changes have been incorporated such as the validity of the Unique Porting Code or UPC has been brought down to four days instead of a fortnight prescribed earlier, for all circles except Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East, where the validity of the said code remains unchanged, it said.

"Process for withdrawal of porting requests has been made simpler and quicker through SMS (text message). For the cases of corporate porting, present limit of 50 numbers in single authorisation letter has been enhanced to 100 numbers per authorisation letter. Provisions for the financial disincentives have been broadened upon contravention of the provisions of MNP Regulations," the regulator said.

Trai to Monitor Service Providers in the Case of MNP

Following the implementation of the latest regulation, suitable service quality parameters will be devised by Trai to monitor the role of MNP service providers and access providers in the new scenario, the statement said.

In recent times, we have seen a lot of small telcos such as Aircel, RCom and Tata Docomo shutting the wireless business in the country. In Chennai telecom circle, Aircel has the strong foothold followed by other telcos. Earlier this year, BSNL urged that customers in Chennai circle are facing some issues as Aircel is denying them to port out to the state-run telco, and the matter even reached Trai.

To recall, as per the existing MNP norms, a number can be ported from one network to another within seven days. Having said that, MNP process was never as swift as it sounds as several customers often face the absence of network issues even after the port out.

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