India November push mobile phone portability

C114 Beijing Time September 20 Morning News (SHANGMU) After repeated delays, India's mobile number portability business (MNP) will eventually be launched in early November, the Indian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRAI) Chairman Salma (J. Sarma) announced. "I do not expect any further delay in the implementation of the business."　　"Salma told the media at a time when the Telecommunications regulatory Authority DTH set-top box operable open access.　　Mobile number portability deployments were expected to start all over India, but were repeatedly delayed as regulators changed their plans to support the country's simultaneous rollout.　　India is expected to launch a mobile number portability business before mobile users break 500 million. The Ministry of Telecommunications (DoT) has geographically divided the country into two number-portability zones, each comprising 11 telecommunications service areas, and subsequently selected operators for each region.　　Syniverse Technologies obtained a licence to operate mobile number portability in area 1, northern and western India, MNP interconnection EADS FX was awarded Regional 2, East and south of India. Nearly one-fifth (18%) of mobile phone users will likely replace their mobile service providers if mobile numbers can be brought into the Indian market, according to a survey last year by Nielsen.