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    Do Not Reject MNP Port-out requests: TRAI orders Telecom Operators

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    TRAI has taken a serious cognizance to the fact that very high number of MNP port-out requests are being rejected by Telecom Operators in India. In interest of mobile consumers TRAI has now come out with a official directive to not reject a porting request under any circumstances except

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    Mobile Number Portability vs. Savings Account Portability vs. Health Insurance Portability!

    by Viral Dholakia

    It seems all of a sudden the government has taken frenzy of the ‘portability’ facility. Almost within a year, it has shown intention of bringing portability in telecom, banking and insurance sector. While mobile number portability, or MNP, was rolled out as early as January 20, health insurance came

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    Savings Bank Account Number Portability coming soon !

    by Viral Dholakia

    Implementing portability scheme is any form of service is the best way to ensure that the customer remains the king. While mobile number portability empowered telecom subscribers to ditch their erring operators; health insurance portability allowed customers to switch between, their life and non-life insurance, service providers. More than

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    TRAI directs Telcos not to reject MNP requests on Flimsy grounds!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    Mobile Number Portability has not really set the stage on fire – Most telecom operators have come out and said that MNP has not affected their business much, however, it looks like there may a reason why the MNP numbers are not really high. Indian Telecom Operators have been

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    India crosses 800 Million Telecom Subscribers –Adds 19m mobile users in Jan!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    The Indian Telecom subscriber count has reached 806.13 Million by end of January 2011, thanks to unabated growth in mobile subscribers. India added 18.99 Million new Mobile subscribers in January to take the total mobile subscriber count to 771.18 Million. According to the latest report released by Telecom Regulatory

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    Buzz: Stock market crash, 2G scam, Health Insurance Portability, Inflation & Infra bonds!

    by Viral Dholakia

    It has been hectic week for the investigators and government authorities what with new findings into scams and various regulatory reports coming out almost every other day, as the investigation into slew of corruption charges takes its route. On the other hand, even stock markets have reacted negatively based

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    MNP Churn Numbers: Vodafone gains & BSNL falters!

    by Viral Dholakia

    MNP has been implemented – now its time for a reality check for all the telecom service providers. Good boys will be rewarded and bad boys will be punished. And, for a change, the verdict would come from none other than the king (the customer!) himself. The initial churn

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    Letter to Mobile Network Operators!

    by Satyam Gambhir

    Dear Network Provider, Hope you are not low on BP after today’s / yesterday’s news. I woke up and saw a full page ad on front page of TOI, a leading network provider welcoming me to join them. HT had another giant ad of another network provider and so

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    Mobile Number Portability: Top 7 Reasons to ditch your Mobile operator!

    by Viral Dholakia

    Pinch! Ouch! Oh yes, the much awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is finally here after a series of regulatory delays. But, reports provide that there could be a very low churn rate in terms of subscribers looking to ditch their current telecom service providers. Not surprisingly, a couple of

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    Mobile Number Portability: Guide to changing Telecom operators!

    by Varun

    Mobile Number Portability is well and truly here after near unending delays over past couple of years. Telecom minister Kapil Sibal unveiled mobile number portability in Haryana on 25th November. Most of the country will have this facility by the New Year, while it will be available throughout the

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