Experts say portability leads to increased competition among operators

Sina Science and technology news on the morning of June 16, in today's "number with the International Summit Forum", the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Institute chief expert Shing said that the number of carrying policy during the trial period of the operator's market share did not occur significant changes, but the transfer of the number of operators to increase competition. At the meeting, Shing reviewed the whole process of the introduction of the number portability policy.　　She revealed that in Tianjin and Hainan before the official launch of the policy test, the number carrying implementation of the Working Group has been in the Ministry of Information, communications authority and operators, such as the internal recruitment of 1000 friendly users to conduct internal testing. Shing said that in-situ tests, "the team predicted users from the application to confirm the general need for two days, but basically a day can be completed."　　By the end of May 2011, about 50000 people in Tianjin and Hainan had successfully implemented the transfer network. For the problems existing in the field test, Shing pointed out that "the user's success rate is low, repeat application is more."　　According to her, during the trial period, 140,000 people conducted business consultation, and the business application reached 500,000. "There has been no significant change in the market share of operators, but the portability of carriers has exacerbated competition among operators," he said.　　"Shing said.　　In addition to the low success rate of the application, Shing also said that the number of users can not receive from the bank, insurance and other sectors of the industry text messages, and small bundle of users can not apply for the number to carry services. Shing said, "No matter how the national test, Tianjin and Hainan's number carrying test is going to go on, the next step we have to Tianjin and Hainan to carry the number of transfer network work evaluation, and further improve the Tianjin and Hainan number portability strategy, processing procedures and management methods. She also said that the Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute will also study the next step with the promotion plan. (Zong)