How mobile number portability will benefit users

Analysts feel that mobile number portability may trigger the next price war amongst telecom operators that would eventually benefit the end customer.

Earlier, the government had postponed the implementation of MNP to October 31 as the operators were not ready with the infrastructure to provide the service.

MNP is a service that enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another.

This was for the third time that the implementation of MNP was postponed in India.
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