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Source: The Tribune MNP unlikely this year Girja Shankar Kaura/Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 14 Mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to be delayed by a few more months with no clarity on the company chosen for its roll out. The Tribune had earlier reported that MNP was set to miss its October 31 deadline with the home ministry objecting to the clearance given to the chosen company on security grounds. Reports now suggest that the roll out of MNP may happen only in the next calendar year as not only MNP Interconnection, in which US-based Telcordia holds 74 percent, was still to get the FIPB clearance but a number of telecom operators have also expressed their inability to roll out the service by October 31. MNP Interconnection was one of the two number portability operators selected by the government to offer services in the country. The other was Syniverse Technologies Inc. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued show cause notice to Telcordia stating that why its licence for MNP should not be cancelled. Telcordia has time till the third week of October to respond to DoT, which may lead to a delay in troll out. The home ministry's main objection was that Telecordia managed number portability in Pakistan too. Subsequently, Telecordia filed an appeal at the FIPB against cancellation of approval. DoT also has the option of asking Syniverse to manage number portability.

Source: Mail Today Cell No. swap deadline to be missed again Telecom operators with high stakes in the Indian market have been lobbying hard in the corridors of power to scuttle the roll- out of mobile number portability (MNP) and have managed to succeed yet again, dashing hopes of it becoming a reality from October 31, the government's latest deadline for its execution. Officials said that the MNP may be pushed forward by two to three months. The chances of the MNP being rolled out from October 31 is remote given that there has been no official communication to Syniverse Technologies Inc on managing MNP across all the 23 circles in the country. 'Unhappy users keen on MNP' Close to one in five (18 per cent) Indian mobile phone subscribers intend to switch their operator when MNP is introduced, says a study by Nielsen research on consumer attitude and behaviour toward mobile operators in India. The survey, which was conducted last year, included 12,500 mobile subscribers across 50 locations in India. One in four Reliance Communications (RCom) and Tata Indicom subscribers will be keen to change their operator when MNP is rolled out, followed by close to one in five (19 per cent) of BSNL subscribers. While the Centre has selected Syniverse Technologies Inc and Telcordia Technologies Inc to manage number portability in the country, the latter is yet to get the security clearance from India's home ministry. "We are working on MNP. We have not been approached by the government if we need to single handedly manage MNP. We do not anticipate that," Sanjay Kasturia, who heads Syniverse's India operations, told Mail Today. Syniverse has, meanwhile, begun testing the preparedness of the infrastructure set up for the MNP roll- out. MNP will offer subscribers the option to retain their number while changing the telecom operator. When MNP is implemented, it will offer number portability only within a circle (meaning a state in most cases). Operators, especially bigger ones who have been around longer, have for long been dragging their feet on rolling out MNP in India for fear of losing existing customers. They fear that dissatisfied mobile users may switch to other operators once the MNP is rolled out. The roll- out of number portability in the country has been deferred thrice. It was initially supposed to be put into place by December 31, 2009, in metro cities across the country. The deadline was later deferred to March 31, 2010, and then to June 30, 2010. The government had set October 31 as the new deadline for MNP roll- out across all 23 telecom circles in India. Telcordia Technologies got approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) for the MNP project in March 2009 but the home ministry revoked the clearance in August, citing security concerns saying it has operations in Pakistan. Telcordia explained that it was only a software vendor for Pakistan operations and had no other business interests there. But the Centre is not convinced. The department of telecom (DoT) has issued a show- cause notice to Telcordia asking why its licence for MNP should not be cancelled. Telcordia has time till the third week of October to respond to DoT's queries. A top official said that telecom lobbies have been creating trouble for the US- based Telcordia Technologies Inc by raking up the issue concerning its operations in Pakistan. This was aimed at delaying MNP implementation, the official said. Also, the state- run operators, who were till now blamed for delaying MNP, have confirmed that they are ready for MNP. "We are ready for MNP but I cannot comment on the status of MNP implementation," BSNL chairman and managing director Gopal Das told Mail Today.

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