Mobile customers who are looking for the convenience of retaining their existing numbers at the new location anywhere in India can avail the benefits of national mobile number portability (MNP) service from Friday.
Major operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, RCom, State-run BSNl and MTNl have announced rolling out the full MNP from July 3 as per the deadline fixed by the Government. Other private players such as Uninor, Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Videocon will also roll out the same service to meet the deadline.
The national MNP service will facilitate customers to carry their existing mobile number from one telecom circle to another across the country and choose the operator of their choice without changing their numbers.
In a statement, Airtel said its customers can enjoy special offers like processing requests to port within Airtel’s network within 24 hours and free incoming on roaming until the portability request is processed.
Vodafone said, “Customers looking for the convenience of retaining their existing number at the new location can avail the benefits of national MNP service.”
“Vodafone has benefited from the intra-circle MNP that was rolled out in 2011 and we look forward to a similar response this time,” Vodafone India Chief Commercial Officer Vivek Mathur said.