MNP. How Mobile Slavery Was Abolished
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:17 am
Do you know what the three foreign letters MNP stand for? Literally in English it is "Mobile Number Portability", and in Russian it is OMP, that is, the abolition of mobile slavery. And it is not a matter of translation difficulties. The very need to switch to another operator while preserving the subscriber's phone number arose as soon as a competitive mobile operator appeared. And if in some Western countries the basic provisions of MNP were introduced at the end of the last century, then in our country the fight against mobile slavery took place with some delay.
The first attempts to free people from attachment to operators were made south-africa phone number resource at the highest level back in 2004. At that time, working groups were created, and some movement began with the goal of achieving change.
But then, for various reasons, MNP did not materialize. First of all, the lobby of the "big three" cannot be discounted. Their lack of interest in implementing MNP was obvious.
The turning point came in 2012, when the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the bill on the abolition of "mobile slavery" in the first reading. The date for the introduction of the service was named - December 1, 2013. However, as many probably remember, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree according to which mobile operators had the right to independently set the date for the start of subscriber service within the service, but not later than April 15, 2014. Thus, operators were finally obliged to introduce MNP, following the developed European countries.
Despite the negative forecasts from the guys from the “big three”, the MNP service turned out to be really popular.
More than 10 million people have applied to change their operator, and more than 6 million have already used this service (you can see the exact figures on the TsNIIS website ). What is characteristic is that most of the “deserters” have defected to Tele2, probably due to their more flexible pricing policy.
Of course, the implementation of MNP brought certain inconveniences and restructuring of business processes to mobile operators, for example, billing and call routing became more complicated. For ordinary users, the innovation turned out to be only a plus. There was no drop in the cost of tariffs, but for the same money, members of the telecommunications oligopoly began to offer subscribers a wider range of benefits.
Today, changing the operator while keeping the number is easy and simple, if you take into account some nuances. For example, if you are a corporate subscriber, you can transfer both part of the numbers and all the numbers allocated under the contract with the current operator. If everything is in order with the documents, then the transfer of no more than 50 numbers can be done in 8 days, but no later than 180 days.
The first attempts to free people from attachment to operators were made south-africa phone number resource at the highest level back in 2004. At that time, working groups were created, and some movement began with the goal of achieving change.
But then, for various reasons, MNP did not materialize. First of all, the lobby of the "big three" cannot be discounted. Their lack of interest in implementing MNP was obvious.
The turning point came in 2012, when the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the bill on the abolition of "mobile slavery" in the first reading. The date for the introduction of the service was named - December 1, 2013. However, as many probably remember, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree according to which mobile operators had the right to independently set the date for the start of subscriber service within the service, but not later than April 15, 2014. Thus, operators were finally obliged to introduce MNP, following the developed European countries.
Despite the negative forecasts from the guys from the “big three”, the MNP service turned out to be really popular.
More than 10 million people have applied to change their operator, and more than 6 million have already used this service (you can see the exact figures on the TsNIIS website ). What is characteristic is that most of the “deserters” have defected to Tele2, probably due to their more flexible pricing policy.
Of course, the implementation of MNP brought certain inconveniences and restructuring of business processes to mobile operators, for example, billing and call routing became more complicated. For ordinary users, the innovation turned out to be only a plus. There was no drop in the cost of tariffs, but for the same money, members of the telecommunications oligopoly began to offer subscribers a wider range of benefits.
Today, changing the operator while keeping the number is easy and simple, if you take into account some nuances. For example, if you are a corporate subscriber, you can transfer both part of the numbers and all the numbers allocated under the contract with the current operator. If everything is in order with the documents, then the transfer of no more than 50 numbers can be done in 8 days, but no later than 180 days.