TRAI issues notice on revised MNP process that will come into effect by 16 December

The new process entails 3 working days’ timeline for port out requests, and 5 working days for requests for port out from one circle to another. Telecom regulator TRAI on Tuesday issued a public notice on the revised mobile number portability process, which is slated to make the porting process fast and simple from December 16. The new process, which comes with conditions for generation of Unique Porting Code, entails three working days’ timeline for port out requests within a service area, and five working days for requests for port out from one circle to another. “TRAI has revised the Mobile Number Portability process…In the revised MNP process, the Unique Porting Code will be generated only when the subscriber is eligible to port-out his mobile number,” TRAI said. From December 16, 2019, the revised MNP process will be in place and mobile subscribers can generate the Unique Porting Code and avail the mobile number porting process, it added.