Mobile phone portability for at least another year

Mobile phone portability Network has made new progress. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Telecommunications Research Institute, the Institute led the development of the number of technical solutions have been demonstrated that the expected year will be in Tianjin, Hainan, two areas to launch the pilot.　　At that time, the two places mobile phone users can not change the number of cases, free "job-hopping" to other networks and operators.　　However, the nationwide transfer network needs to summarize the pilot experience and then fully launched, the year is basically not implemented, "the fastest also to 2011 after the Spring Festival."　　Transferred to "no discrimination" according to the introduction, has been demonstrated by the number portability Technology program has basically established three major principles: first of all, the transfer and transfer to the operator of the network users do not discriminate, not preferential treatment, and secondly, the original operator's business is not carried, and the current prepaid balance can not be carried out temporarily, third, not involved in clearing and interconnection. Experts from the Institute of Telecommunications, said that the implementation of the number portability technology key link is the deployment of the central database, that is, the storage number carries the user's data, carrying status and other necessary information. At present, the main construction of the central database has been basically completed, funded by the state Construction, Telecommunications Institute is responsible for maintenance.　　This year, the Ministry of Industry and Information technology will also organize four stages of the central database and the interface testing of the operators ' equipment, the whole business test, the test result evaluation and the internal probation. At the same time, Tianjin, Hainan and the communications authority and operators are in a step-by-step to upgrade the internal network, the expected year will be for the public to launch trial business. In accordance with previous provisions, two pilot cities in the transfer network policy will be different, Tianjin pilot two-way transfer network (to TD-SCDMA to the network, only to enter), while Hainan is piloting China Mobile 2G users to China Telecom and Unicom one-way transfer network.　　However, according to the newly established three principles, all users will be free to transfer to the network, no longer have any protection and preferential treatment for TD-SCDMA, and no longer for China Mobile to implement asymmetric control of one-way portability network. After two or three years of effort, the domestic mobile phone users have basically been able to "carry the number of brands" in the same network, but the trans-carrier transfer network is twists, progress is slow. In fact, as early as October 2008, the Ministry of Communications issued a document will be Tianjin and Shenzhen as a pilot area, to demonstrate the transfer network work, and asked the two sides of the communication authority from the city to start the deployment of the company.　　At the same end of the year, the Ministry of, and the transfer of the number of the city to make adjustments, Shenzhen changed to Hainan, the two places using different portability transfer scheme. It was not until last April that the pilot was actually launched, and the pilot process was a long timetable: the establishment of the database and the transformation of the network platform, 7.5 months, networking testing, 2.5 months, internal use, 1.5 months ...　　According to this schedule, in April this year, the two sides will conduct a six-year socialized trial business. Wanfang Consulting and research Director Liang that the two places after the completion of the experiment experience, and then determine the nationalprogram, and then carry out the National Network transformation and networking testing, everything goes well, the National Portability network at the earliest before the 2011 Spring Festival may be launched.　　Another Institute of telecommunications experts said that, even in the pilot success, the national operator network background database related to the transformation of at least 1-2 years, so "short-term users carry numbers to operators are not realistic". The slow progress of interest turning network industry experts generally believe that the transfer network from the technical point of view without technical problems, but the operator's network needs to upgrade, the operation of a certain amount of time costs. "Take the choice of the receiver of the transfer network for example, operators are very controversial, whether the number to the party or the transfer of the party to accept the application business, which will have a direct impact on the operator's user network, and similar to the interests of the operators involved in the process set up a lot.　　"The researchers who have been involved in the project said. However, the portability of the work of the promotion of slow, the most fundamental reason is still, the transfer of the number of operators involved in the redistribution of benefits, the parties have behaved very carefully. From the experience of foreign countries, the Transfer Network portability policy for large operators relatively favorable, unicom, telecommunications are very worried about the loss of their own users, thereby exacerbating the Matthew effect. As a result, the departments concerned once tried to implement the one-way portability transfer scheme, that is, only the existing 2G users of China Mobile will be allowed to transfer out, not allowed to transfer. However, such a practice obviously undermines the interests of users and creates new inequities. Nanfang Daily correspondent Hu Wei RELATED LINKS portability benefits to reduce the current global around 50 countries and regions have implemented a transfer network services.　　Singapore was the first country to implement the transfer policy, since then the United States, the European Union, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Australia, Brazil and other countries have introduced this policy. From the experience of overseas operators, the transfer network can promote market competition, the promotion of tariff reduction also has obvious effects. The United States is the world's early implementation of the transfer network with the number of countries, since the implementation of fixed network and wireless network between the free number to carry, the United States, several major operators have introduced preferential promotional policies to attract users, market competition behavior is unusually active, some operators of the tariff adjustment range even up to 33% The latest survey shows that in the two-way access environment, the dominant operators are affected by the impact is not obvious, the real portability of users are not common. Nanfang Daily reporter Hu Wei