The pilot scope of carrying number transfer network expanded to 5 provinces, Hubei, Yunnan and other cities were selected

1 Sohu IT/hostel art in accordance with the deployment of the Ministry of Industry, the three major operators to carry the number of transfer network business pilot range from Tianjin, Hainan to expand to Hubei, Yunnan, Jiangxi a total of 5 provinces and cities. China Mobile has announced in the above 5 provinces to open the transfer network business, users can be mobile, telecommunications, unicom between the three operators to achieve free transfer network, no need to change mobile phone number. In the first year of 4G, China Mobile announced the launch of a transfer network to make the industry concerned. Prior to that, China Mobile had the highest percentage of users, and was considered to be the most visible impact of the portability policy. But in the face of the 4G ERA in the LTE network and terminals, China Mobile instead hope to start with the number of transfer network, through the 4G business for Unicom and Telecom 3G in the network users. November 2010, the domestic transfer network business in Hainan, Tianjin, the two provinces to open the pilot, but limited by the operator procedures, the threshold of more complex, the number of users and the success rate are not ideal, and increasingly become chicken business. Data show that by the second half of 2012, Tianjin, Hainan, more than 18 million mobile phone users, the proposed transfer network users are less than 1%, the application after the success rate of transfer is only 36.7%. The second batch of pilot cities was approved by the Ministry until the second half of 2013.