Mobile number portability is here NOW!!!
After years of waiting, Mobile Number Portability will finally be implemented tomorrow (Friday). The initial service will be offered to Prepaid subscribers, while those on Postpaid lines will be able to join in the fun in a couple of weeks.
To those not so in tune with the technical jargon, Mobile Number Portability or MNP in short is a service that will allow you to switch telco providers without having to go through the hassle of changing your service number. After tomorrow, no longer will the prefixes of 016 solely be that of a DiGi subscriber, or 012 be an exclusive Maxis number.
With MNP finally in place, subscribers will have the convenient freedom of switching to competing telco providers while retaining their respective phone numbers. There will be a RM25 charge everytime the MNP is used to switch to a new telco.
The nationwide launch for the MNP service is in October, but prepaid users may start switching from tomorrow onwards. We have been informed prior to the nationwide launch, each telco is only allowed to process 100 MNP applications a day. Prepaid credit will not be transferred over to your new service provider, so finish up before you jump ship.
Found this news moments ago and decided to post it up.
It’s like ages for the network companies to dominate each other line and continue to stiff up competitions while keeping their old customers alighted. Whenever you see any mobile company roll out something, in a day or two, the other will do the same. Well, competition is good and at the end we are the one who benefits from them! Lower call rates, lower sms fees and monthly fees, and along with so many services offered by the companies, how could we not benefiting from them.
I remember that I begged so hard for my dad to buy a prepaid for me when I’m about 12 years old? And it cost a bomb! Nowadays prepaid cards are easily available and sadly to say quite many misused it too!
And so the competition goes on, as long as three of the main network companies didn’t go bust in short-term, we may see them rewarding you with money in the near future! Who knows!
PS: They remind me of the war between Air-Asia and MAS.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:28 am
This is indeed a great news.
Just Rm25 to switch Telco with existing phone number.
But 100 MNP applications per day.. Seems too little..
August 29th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Yea. Quite good actually to the consumers. But then I wonder why they put 100 quota in it?