Telcordia launches MNP on January 20

Telcordia Technologies will launch MNP on January 20th 2011. The government has given conditional approval to Telcordia to implement mobile number portability in India. The move comes after FIPB had rejected the company's proposal on security grounds. MNP is being delayed because the mobile operators did not have the necessary infrastructure and were reluctant to implement the same.

MNP will be rolled out on a joint venture by Telcordia and Pakistan based Deepak Talwar Consultants and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions (MITS) on 74: 26 ratio. Initially the Telcordia-Deepak Talwar Consultants and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions (MITS) — was given license to implement MNP for the southern and eastern zones in 2009. License for the remaining zones was given to Syniverse Technologies. Subsequently, the ministry of home affairs had proposed to revoke the approval citing security reasons following Telcordia's contract with the Pakistan MNP database. Deepak Talwar Consultants, in its individual capacity, had no expertise in running a telecom network.