Mobile Number Portability shortly referred to as MNP has been in practice in various countries for some time. In India, it will be introduced on November 1, 2010.
MNP actually refers to the technical feasibility as well as the allowing of a mobile phone subscriber to retain his old mobile phone number despite changing his service operator.For example,if you are a subscriber of BSNL Cell One mobile phone service, you will be allotted a specific mobile phone number for your use.If you wish to change your service to any other service operator say Airtel or Aircell or Tata Indicom, or Vodafone etc,you are allowed to retain the same old mobile phone number that you have been hitherto using in the BSNL Cell One mobile phone service.
However MNP has its own Pros and Cons.
Pros:
1)The Mobile Number Portability (MNP)allows you to retain your existing or old mobile phone number despite switching over to yet another service operator.You enjoy the advantage of retaining your old mobile phone number without unduly worrying about the burden of using or memorizing a new number.
2) Despite switching over to yet another service operator, there is no any additional burden of informing it to your relatives and friends.If you are a business man or a professional like a doctor or lawyer, your customers or clients can contact you with the same old mobile phone number. Hence, despite switching over to a new service provider, you retain your customers or clients intact.
3) You enjoy the benefits of better service from the new operator by retaining the same old mobile phone number wherever you go or reside. Again, each service provider offer some special services that cater to the needs of its bulk customers.You have the added advantage of availing such special services from a new operator by retaining your old mobile phone number using MNP facility.
4) MNP plays a significant role in reducing the fierce competition that prevails between the various service providers. In fact each service provider offers various schemes of tariff and facilities to retain their existing customers and to woo the customers from other service providers. But, by availing the facility of Mobile Number Portability, many subscribers voluntarily switch over from one service provider to another in quest of better service. Thus it ease the burden of better service providers from wooing many subscribers to their mobile phone service. In the result, each service provider will be heavily burdened with the task of providing a better mobile phone service than the other service providers.In other words each service provider will mainly focus his attention in providing the best service to his existing customers and retain them.
5) The facility of Mobile Number Portability is a boon to the countries like India and China, where the mobile phone users are in millions and their density is very high.
However, there are some disadvantages in availing the MNP facility.
Cons:
1) By switching over to a new service provider, a mobile phone subscriber loses the special services and facilities offered by the previous or old service provider once and for all.
2) Despite retaining the same old mobile phone number through MNP facility,it takes time to acclimatize to the operating system and features of the new service provider.
3) In order to avail the MNP facility, you have to keep in touch with two service providers, the old and the new..It involves a number of technical feasibilities as well clerical formalities.
4) By availing the MNP facility, your mobile phone number loses it specific identity associated with a particular operator. Now it is not possible to predict exactly from where a subscriber avails his mobile phone service.
5) Since MNP is an advanced technical facility, it is offered at a comparatively high cost. Hence, a common man may have to pay more for it.
Courtesy:-
http://factoidz.com/mobile-number-portability-in-india-pros-and-cons/
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