Begining Thursday, over 75 crore mobile subscribers in India will have the option to switch to another telecom operator while retaining their mobile number. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday launched the much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) that empowers subscribers to change their operator, for slack services, while retaining their numbers.With MNP kicking off, India has now joined the bandwagon of advanced countries like the US, UK and China, which had already introduced it a few years ago. MNP was introduced in the state of Haryana in November 25 last year as a test case.
The Prime Minister said that the MNP is an unblemished example of how India’s telecommunication services have helped to widen the human choices in a very important area of the nation’s economic activity.
“ More of our countrymen have been touched by this (mobile) revolution than by any other program, product or service in the history of our nation and that too, at a pace unprecedented in the world at large,” the Prime Minister said while launching the MNP by making an inaugural call to telecom minister Kapil Sibal from a ported number.
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