What is Mobile Network Portability (MNP)? Mobile Number Portability allows mobile telephone users to migrate from one service provider to another and still retain their telephone numbers. It provides a platform whereby a subscriber on any of the existing GSM and some of the CDMA networks can switch from one service provider to another and still retain their phone numbers. For instance, with your current MTN line you can decide to migrate to ETISALAT or vice-versa, and still retain your "stable and popular" phone number. How MNP Works For instance, subscriber A whose original service provider is network P, might wish to change or port to network Q. This can be achieved by subscriber A sending a porting request to network Q, network Q sees the request coming from a user on network P and then contacts them accordingly to setup the process of exchange and transference of subscriber details, this is the most common and it is known as "Recipient-led" porting. Once a...
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