Country-wide MNP requests crossed 38 lakh by the end of February
The facility of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Service is
available in the country from 20th Jan.2011.
As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of
February 2011 about 38.33 lakh subscribers have
submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their
mobile number. Out of these requests around 3.20 lakh
pertains to Haryana wherein MNP was implemented from
25th Nov. 2010. In rest of the country, in MNP Zone-I (Northern & Western
India) maximum number of requests have been received in Gujarat (3.65 lakh) followed by Rajasthan (3.14 lakh)
whereas in MNP Zone-II (Southern &Eastern India) maximum number of requests
have been received in Karnataka ( 3.18 lakh) followed
by Tamil Nadu Service area(2.76 lakh).
The status of MNP requests in various service areas is given below:
|
Service Area Wise MNP Status(as on 28th
February 2011) |
|
|
Zone -1 |
|
|
LSA |
Number of Porting Requests |
|
|
173437 |
|
|
364849 |
|
Himachal Pradesh |
20242 |
|
Haryana |
319850 |
|
Jammu & Kashmir |
1291 |
|
|
262110 |
|
Mumbai |
136067 |
|
|
194167 |
|
Rajasthan |
313725 |
|
Uttar pradesh - East |
177368 |
|
Uttar pradesh - West |
227752 |
|
Total |
2190858 |
|
Zone
-2 |
|
|
LSA |
Number
of Porting Requests |
|
Andhra
Pradesh |
229,034 |
|
|
8,308 |
|
|
83,030 |
|
Karnataka |
318,092 |
|
Kerala |
123,812 |
|
Kolkata |
96,382 |
|
Madhya
Pradesh |
235,039 |
|
North
East |
1,863 |
|
Orissa |
56,989 |
|
Tamil
Nadu |
276,950 |
|
|
212,681 |
|
Total |
1,642,180 |
|
|
|
|
Total (Zone 1 + Zone 2) |
3,833,038 |