Mobile number portability in INDIA also

Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing his/her
telephone number.

Mobile number portability (MNP) requires that mobile telephone customers can keep their telephone number–including the prefix–when switching from one provider of mobile Telecommunications services to another. In the absence of MNP, customers have to give up their number and must adopt a new one when they switch operators. As a result, customers face switching costs associated with informing people about changing their number, printing new business cards, missing valuable calls from people that do not have the new number, etc. Based on these considerations, many regulatory authorities have imposed mandatory
The world’s first country to introduce MNP was Singapore in 1997.

Number Portability will allow subscribers to change their service provider while retaining their old
mobile number. Portability benefits subscribers and increases the level of competition between service
providers, rewarding service providers with the best customer service, network coverage, and service
quality.

It might start from this month ending onwards and already two big cellular companies are giving adds and did not declare the exact date.....