The Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI) has today issued 6th Amendment to the
Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability Regulation, 2009 which will
facilitate Full MNP (PAN India Portability) in the country w.e.f. 3rd
May, 2015.
Earlier TRAI made
recommendations to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for implementation
of Full MNP/National MNP and suggested amendments in the licenses of MNP service
providers and mobile service providers.
Accordingly, on 3rd
November, 2014, the DoT had issued amendment(s) to the MNP License Agreement.
As per the DoT, the Full MNP is to be implemented in the country within a period
of 6 months from the date of amendment to the Licenses, i.e. 3rd May,
2015.
In view of the implementation
of Full Mobile Number Portability, some changes were required in the MNP
Regulations, 2009 (as amended). Accordingly, a draft Amendment to the
Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability Regulation, 2009 was prepared and
uploaded on TRAI website (www.trai.gov.in) for consultation with the
stakeholders. Based on stakeholder’s comments & in house analysis, necessary
amendments have been made in the MNP Regulations.
Accordingly, in this Amendment,
apart from facilitating Pan-India Portability, a few changes have also been made
in the porting process as well, which include:
a) In case a post-paid subscriber
who has ported his number defaults in the payment of his previous bill which was
due to the Donor Operator(previous service provider from whom the subscriber has
ported out), the Donor Operator has to give a notice within a period of 30 days
of due date of payment of its outstanding bill. After a lapse of 60 days from
the due date of payment of the outstanding bill, the Donor Operator will not be
entitled to raise non-payment disconnection requests with the Recipient
Operator.
b) For a post paid
subscriber who has defaulted payment to the Donor Operator, the Donor operator
will request the Recipient operator to disconnect the ported number. The
Recipient Operator in turn will give a notice of 15 days for making such
payment, failing which the outgoing services of such subscriber will be debarred
for a period of 15 days. In case the subscriber fails to make payment within
these 15 days, his mobile number will be disconnected permanently by the
Recipient Operator.
In order to effectively utilize
the numbering resources, provision has been made to reduce the time period for a
ported mobile number, which has been disconnected due to any reasons, to return
to the original service provider (to whom the number belongs) in 60 days time
instead of 90 days prescribed earlier.
Full text of the
‘Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Sixth Amendment) Regulations,
2015’ is available on TRAI website www.trai.gov.in.
Source :PIB
