Good News Trai cuts mobile number port out charges by 79% to Rs 4

[rahul1117kumar]

Telecom regulator Trai today slashed the charges for mobile number portability by almost 79 per cent to a maximum of Rs 4.

The prescribed ceiling for mobile number portability rates was Rs 19, so far.

Trai's latest move means that subscribers cannot be charged more than Rs 4 for their network port out requests but the recipient operators are "free to charge" a lesser amount from them for Mobile Number Portability (MNP).

Trai cuts mobile number port out charges by 79% to Rs 4

 

[Jithin91]

already its free. nobody is asking cash..
not even BSNL

 

[Sai Jai]

already its free. nobody is asking cash..
not even BSNL

Retailer shop or Telecom official store ?!

 

[MRizz]

But retailers are changing 20-50 rs.

 

[Saj 007]

already its free. nobody is asking cash..
not even BSNL

But some shopkeepers asking 50-100 rs for MNP sim. Bsnl didn't charged me when I did Mnp. But recently I'm ported to Idea from Idea store & he asked me 10 rs for that.

 

[Jithin91]

Retailer shop or Telecom official store ?!

Official stores.
Ported to IDEA from IDEA shop.
Ported to BSNL from Exhange..

nobody asked me cash.

 

[Saj 007]

Retailers will charge you sure. As per trai regulations they cannot ask more than 19 rs before. But 90% people didn't know that.

 

[igloo]

Instead cut mnp lock in period from 90 days to 7 days or at least 30days.
Most recent trai steps are jio-centric rather than customer centric.

 

[MRizz]

Last December i ported my mom's Reliance no to airtel from airtel store they told they are not charging port fee but you have to recharge minimum 179 plane from here.

 

[rajrocks]

I ported two of my reliance gsm numbers in Vodafone and Airtel in December Free off cost!