Trai Says Customers Will Be Able to Port SIM in Two Days After December 16

The subscribers in the telecom industry who have ported a SIM know that currently the porting process has been designed such that it takes at least seven days to port a SIM from one operator to other. However, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working on the regulations related to Mobile Number Portability (MNP) to reduce this time required by the MNP service providers and the telecom operators, to make the process easier for the subscribers and faster as well. Although the rules have already been finalised by the telecom regulator and penned down in the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Seventh Amendment) Regulations, 2018 (9 of 2018), which was issued back in December 2018, these rules are yet to go into implementation. This means that the subscribers are not yet able to take benefit from the enhanced porting process. But, in a new notification, Trai has come up with a date for the implementation of the new MNP regime after which the subscribers will be able to enjoy faster MNP.

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Trai Finishing Testing of MNP Systems

Trai in its latest notification has said that the new MNP rules would be implemented on December 16, 2019. It is worth noting that, last year, the MNP rules were finalised on December 13, 2018, and hence it has taken Trai more than a year to bring these rules into actual practice. In this period, Trai has taken its time to conduct a robust testing process with telecom operators and the MNP service providers. As per Trai, it does not want the consumers to face any hassle and is thus taking its time with the thorough testing of the technical systems and operators, which is causing the delay in the implementation of the MNP rules.