Overview of

Mobile Number Portability

 MNP Definition

"Mobile Number Portability" means the

facility which allows a subscriber of a mobile
telephone service to retain his mobile telephone
number when he moves –

from one mobile telephone service provider to

another, irrespective of the mobile technology
or
from one mobile technology to another of the
same mobile telephone service provider, within
such limits as may be permitted by the licensor”
 MNP Definition

Presently, Number portability is permitted only

within LSA and not across LSAs, in India.

That means subscriber can change

• Operator say Airtel to Idea, or
•Technology – GSM to CDMA or vice versa, or
•both say Reliance CDMA to Vodafone GSM

While retaining his mobile number

 MNP Aspects
There are basically 3 aspects to be taken care of
by operators while implementing MNP :-
i. Commercial – Provisioning of Port in and
De provisioning of Port Out subscribers.

ii. Call Routing in MNP Scenario

iii.Charging / Billing of subscribers for their

usage.
Other aspects like strategies for preventing port
out and promoting port IN customers are
vital but not not in the scope of this session.
 TERMINOLOGY

"Donor Operator" “-

means a operator from whose network the

subscriber is porting out.

“Recipient Operator" –
means an Operator who will be providing mobile
service to the subscriber after porting
 TERMINOLOGY from BSNL
point of view

Not Ported – Mobile Numbers belonging to BSNL.

( subscribers of 94 Series belonging to BSNL )

Port IN or Imported – Number ported into BSNL

from another network. (98 series BSNL subs.)

Ported Out – Number Ported out to another N/w

from BSNL. (94 series subscriber of Operator ‘X’ )
 TERMINOLOGY from BSNL
point of view

Foreign Number – Other Operator subscriber not

known to be ported.

( say subscriber of Idea who may or may not have

ported to say Airtel )
 TERMINOLOGY

"Location Routing Number” means the code

assigned to every Access Provider for the purpose
of implementing Mobile Number Portability;

These are 4 digit codes and have been assigned

by DOT.

They have been assigned LSA wise, Operator wise

and technology wise

BSNL has been allocated 42 codes in total – 21 for

GSM and 21 for CDMA.
 TERMINOLOGY

“Example of allocated Location Routing Numbers”

Sl. Name of Licensee Company Service Area Type of Mobile LRN
No. Licence Network

1 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Andhra Pradesh CMTS GSM 2392

2 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Andhra Pradesh CMTS CDMA 2543
3 Bharti Airtel Limited Andhra Pradesh UAS GSM 2724
4 Bharti Airtel Limited Assam UAS GSM 2725
5 BPL Mobile Comm. Ltd. Mumbai CMTS GSM 3026
 MNP Zones & MCHAs

MCHA Licensee for Zone 1 :- M/s. Syniverse

Technologies (India) Private Limited.

MCHA Licensee for Zone 2 :- M/s. MNP

Interconnection Telecom Solutions India Pvt.
Limited.
MNP Zones & MCHAs
Zone 1 - STIPL Zone – II - MITS
Delhi Kolkata
Mumbai T.N including Chennai
Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh
Gujarat Karnataka
Haryana Kerala
Punjab Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan West Bengal
Uttar Pradesh (E) Assam
Uttar Pradesh(W) Bihar
Himachal Pradesh North East
Jammu & Kashmir Orissa
 Porting Process

Eligibility Criteria for making a port request.–

Every subscriber shall be eligible to make a
request for porting his mobile number. provided
that

(a) a period of 90 days has expired from the date of

activation of his new mobile connection / 90
days from last porting
(b) there are no outstanding payments due to the
Donor Operator by way of pending bills issued as
per the normal billing cycle but before the date
of application for porting;
 Porting Process

(c) there is no pending request for change of

ownership of the mobile number ;
(d) the mobile number sought to be ported is not
sub-judice ;
(e) porting of the concerned mobile number has not
been prohibited by a Court of Law.

Note :- In case of Pre – paid :- the balance

amount of talk time, if any, at the time of porting
shall lapse
 Porting Process
• Subscriber desirous of porting his mobile number
shall make a request in writing to the concerned
Recipient Operator in specified format with UPC.

• Receipt Operator will forward request to MCHA

 Porting Process

• On receipt of the porting request MCHA shall verify

whether a period of ninety days has elapsed from
the date of its last porting and if any porting
request in respect of the same mobile number is
already pending
 
• In case the porting request is found eligible MCHA
shall forthwith forward the details of such request
to the Donor Operator for seeking his clearance
for such porting.
 Porting Process

• On getting clearance from Donor operator,

MCHA will fix the date and time of porting.

• MCHA will intimate porting date and time to both

the operators.
 Porting Process
Recipient Operator shall communicate the
same, to the concerned subscriber via SMS.

The porting will be break before make.

Donor Opr. will disconnect the subs at the time

specified by MCHA and intimate MCHA. (1 Hr.
window)

MCHA will then ask Recipient Opr. to connect.

Recipient Opr. will connect and intimate MCHA
(1 Hr. window)
 Porting Process

MCHA will broadcast MSISDN and New LRN to all

Oprs. for call routing.
 Number Portability Business Process

4. Forward
1. Request to 2. Request 5. Approve or
Request to MCHA
switch to Telco A to port Reject, if
(Porting Number) approved
forward request
Telco A Telco B to Donor
( Donor) 3. Verify the (Recipient) Operator
request
Voice

Customer 7. MCHA fix

the porting
Mobile window and
8. Number is
Clearing convey it to
disconnected from
House(MCH Donor and
Donor operator and
A) Recipient
provisioned in
Recipient Operators Operator
Network
6. Approve or
Reject, if 9. LRN of
approved Recipient
10. New LRN is Telco C forward approval Telco D
updated by all Operator is
to MCHA defined against
Operators
the Mobile
Number
 Technical Implementation

G G R
A A E
DONOR T MCHA T C
E E I
W W P
A A I
Y Y E
N
T
 Porting Process

MCHA Gateways sites

•MCHA-1 at Delhi and DR at Mumbai.
•MCHA-2 at Banglore and DR at Kolkata.
 Porting Process

BSNL MNP Gateways

•MNP Gateways at Chandigarh and Kolkatta
with DR.
•Chandigarh to cater for North and West Zones.
•Kol to cater for East and South Zones.
 Technical Implementation

SSTP
M L
C S
H M
A S
SSTP
DB

LSMS : Localized Service Management System

 MNP Functional DIAGRAM

MCHA Gateway
Gateway
Opr. B
Opr. A NPDB

MNP Licensee

LPDB Opr A LPDB Opr B

B&CCS
B&CCS
Opr A
N/ W Elements Opr B

Opr A.
 Abbreviations

•NPDB :- national Number Portability database

•LPDB :- Local portability database
•B&CCS :- Billing and Customer Care System
•MCHA :- Mobile Clearing House Administrator
  
SSTP  at MNP Gateway DR at Main site of
 
Delhi at Chandigarh for MCHA-1 at
  Chandigarh MNP Gateway Delhi
  at Kolkata
 
SSTP at DR site
Main siteofof
Mumbai
  MCHA-1 at
MCHA-2
Banglore
  Mumbai
Banglore
 
  DR site of
SSTP at
Chennai MPLS MCHA-2 at
Kolkata
Back-bone
SSTP at   B&CCS at
Patna Of Kolkata

BSNL
SSTP at B&CCS at
Jalandhar Trichy

SSTP at B&CCS at
Hyderabad Pune

MNP Gateway DR at Kolkata

SSTP at at for MNP B&CCS at
Kolkata Kolkata Gateway at Chandigarh
Chandigarh
 MNP BLOCK DIAGRAM
SDCC
SDCC PSTN
TANDEM
TANDEM

TAX
TAX M
MNP C
PLMN G H
M
GSM MSC A A-I
MSC SSTP P
T
L
E
SMSC
SMSC S
HLR
M
HLR W
SSTP C
A
H
HLR Y
HLR MSC
MSC A - II
B&CCS
BSNL - CDMA
SMSC
SMSC
 Commn. with MCHA & its NPDB
Regulator (TRAI) defines
MCHA MCHA Specification
CRDB
CRDB

PUBLIC
WAN

Operators’
Operators’ LSMS LSMS
SOA Provisioning
Provisioning SOA Systems
Systems LSMS LSMS
LSMS LSMS
Cluster Cluster
Operator’s Operator’s
WAN WAN
EPAP EPAP EPAP EPAP
EPAP EPAP EPAP EPAP

Eagle NPDBEagle NPDB

Eagle Eagle
BSNL Operator B

NP DB NP DB
NP DB NP DB

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 Call Routing

. All call query to be done for routing mobile

terminated calls originated from any network.

. Every Access Provider on whose network a call

originates shall be responsible for the correct
routing of such call in accordance with the
Location Routing Number (LRN).
 Call Routing

•10- 15 % impact on BHCA handling capacity.

•All network elements to be upgraded HLR,
MSC, MSC Server, MGW, IN, SMSC, MMSC, SDP,
OTA, B&CCS, etc.
•Content Service Providers to also make
changes.
• Cost of up-gradation of network to be borne
by respective service Providers.
 Charging / Billing

• Billing for Mobile terminated calls to be done

based on LRN. ALL CDRs, INs and Billing
platforms to be changed accordingly.

• In view of Differential charging Off Net /

On Net calls, originating Switch to know
terminating network. As such each SSTP to
contain NPDB of entire country
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