Mobile Number Portability

I had mixed feeling about Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which just began in Malaysia.

It was interesting move by implementing such system so that people get more choices on their hand.

I personally found that the implementation of MNP is rite on track especially when I had plan on my mind to change my telco… hehehe.

When I was interviewing Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd CEO, officer Datuk Seri
Shazalli Ramly last week to get his comment about MNP, he confident that Celcom’s customer will strongly maintain with them.

This confident statement based on services provided by them include widest network, contents etc.

NST on 29/08/2008 reports

CELULAR phone companies can charge up to RM25 each time a subscriber
decides to change their operators under the mobile number portability
(MNP) service.
MNP, which will start in the Klang Valley on a limited basis today,
lets users change operators but keep their numbers.
"MNP takes away the inconvenience associated with switching service
providers," said Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor, the Energy, Water and
Communications Minister, in a statement released yesterday.
Starting today, the service is available to prepaid users, followed by
postpaid user in the middle of September.
The nationwide launch of MNP is in October. The service is also
available to individual account users first, followed by those on
business accounts in October. Until the nationwide launch, each operator
can only accept 100 MNP requests a day.
"Mobile phone users are advised not to rush into it but should first
study the various packages being offered before choosing the new service
provider of their choice," Shaziman said.
Those who are keen to sign up for MNP should contact any of the mobile
service providers, he added.
There are also frequently-asked-questions on MNP at the ministry's
website, www.skmm.gov.my.