The total number and competition in the telecom business makes the cost of phoning low. The competition among the mobile providers makes each of them cheap in cost and best in quality. The business people using mobile phones have a great problem of the changing the telecom subscribers as they perform badly in services. One may be having a mobile connection from a particular telecom provider, for example BSNL. He must have subscribed to BSNL when he was in south Kerala in a village where he had a good range of BSNL mobile signal coverage. But when he has to shift to some other place permanently either as part of job, studies or anything of that sort, he may not have the BSNL signal over there. So, he will have to subscribe to some other telecom provider like Idea, Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Tata Docomo, Reliance, etc. according to better convenience. In such a case it will be great difficulty and costly to inform all his friends and relatives about his change of mobile number. To avoid the mobile number change in India while migrating from one telecom provider to other, as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has found a solution to it.

You can therefore now change your telecom service provider while retaining your phone numbers. This facility of changing telecom service provider without changing number will come in to act from January 2010. TRAI issued the regulations for implementation of mobile number portability (MNP) on 23 September 2009. According to TRAI, the MNC launch will be on 1st January 2010. The mobile number portability facility will be possible in metros and category A circles at first. The mobile number portability service India will be available in the rest of the country from March, 2010. TRAI so far did not proclaim the porting charge which has to be paid by the mobile user for porting the number. The rules and regulations of MNP have to be followed by the MNP subscribers India.

A main rule of MNP is that the subscriber is eligible to make a mobile number porting request only after 90 days of the date of activation of his mobile connection. And if a mobile number is already ported once, the number can again be ported only after 90 days from the date of the previous porting of mobile number.

If you desire to port your mobile number, you must approach the recipient operator (the operator to whom you want to port your number) and the service provider may require you to pay porting charges, if any. It is to be noted that you must clear all the bills issued before the date of porting. You may also remove your porting request within 24 hours of its submission to the recipient MNP operator India. Make sure that you really want to change your mobile service provider since the porting charges will not be refundable at any cost.

The Consumer Rights of India ensures you all the benefits of the new mobile service provider offered to the customers. Number portability permits you to jump from mobile phone providers and still keep their phone number fixed. The competition among the mobile connection providers of India may in future give a chance to port your number to other provider without any service charge. Mobile number portability without portable charge may be given by the mobile companies India to attract more subscribers and add profit. So, switch on to better telecom provider without changing your number in 2010.