Mobile number portability: Now, wait for four hours
Changing mobile phone companies is going to take at least four hours, twice as long as before.
NEW DELHI: Changing mobile phone companies
is going to take at least four hours, twice as long as before, with the
telecom department set to issue guidelines increasing the 'break time'
within which the existing service provider (donor) shifts an applicant
out of the network and the new (recipient) network provider adds the
subscriber.
The move has ruffled feathers within the telecom department, which has only agreed to increase the 'disruption' time in the licence agreement between the government and the mobile number portability service provider because the regulator has already issued the new norms.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has repeatedly said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) doesn't have the power to amend the conditions of licence agreements, according to the Trai Act and various legal interpretations. Trai can at best make recommendations but the final decision rests with the telecom department, DoT has reiterated.
While acceding to the regulator's decision on porting time, the department has also sent it a letter asking it to respect boundaries.
"It is also intimated that role, powers and territory of the government and the regulator are very well defined, which needs to be honoured and any overstepping has to be avoided," the letter said.
The move has ruffled feathers within the telecom department, which has only agreed to increase the 'disruption' time in the licence agreement between the government and the mobile number portability service provider because the regulator has already issued the new norms.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has repeatedly said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) doesn't have the power to amend the conditions of licence agreements, according to the Trai Act and various legal interpretations. Trai can at best make recommendations but the final decision rests with the telecom department, DoT has reiterated.
While acceding to the regulator's decision on porting time, the department has also sent it a letter asking it to respect boundaries.
"It is also intimated that role, powers and territory of the government and the regulator are very well defined, which needs to be honoured and any overstepping has to be avoided," the letter said.
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