Mobile number portability: Be your own Oga
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Posted by Felix Okoli on Monday April 22, 2013 at 12:44:24:
Now you can be your own Oga at the top and choose the network you can to be patronizing when your default network has started messing up.The issue of poor services in Nigeria's telecom industry is a major issue and subscribers have complained for long to the NCC. With the recent introduction and launch of Mobile Number Portability into the Nigerian market, competition for customer loyalty would only make GSM service providers to up their game and offer better services.Mobile Number Portability(MNP) is a service that allows a gsm subscriber to move between networks of his choice and still maintain the same phone number.As the name suggests, portability allows you to carry your number from one point to another which in this case is from one network to another just by sending an sms request.In order to migrate from say MTN to Glo with your same phone number, all a subscriber would need to do is visit a Glo office and fill a MNP form, send the required text message "PORT" to 3232 and he would receive a confirmatory text message indicating that the number has been migrated to the recipient which in this case is the GLo network.With Mobile number portability, subscribers on one network would find it easy to move to another network when they feel like it and this is normally the wish of most subscribers when they experience poor service from their network. So assuming you are on the Glo network and unsatisfied with it, you can easily migrate to MTN by visiting an MTN office, filling the form and sending the SMS request.Mobile number Portability would allow Nigerians to become the real oga at the top and no longer at the mercy of under-performing service providers and this works for both prepaid and post paid customers.There have been a lot of poor services which telecom users have been experiencing and these includes:- No GSM network for making calls
- Inability to load airtime recharge PINs
- Unable to receive incoming calls
- Poor USSD service
- No customer serviceThere are some rules for making use of MNP and one of this has to do with the time period for migrating. For a first time user, you can simply migrate to any network but for a second migration, the users would have to stay with the network for at least 90 days before doing a second migration.Nigerians should now rejoice that they can now migrate to second network they feel would best satisfy them if their current one fails to do so.
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Now you can be your own Oga at the top and choose the network you can to be patronizing when your default network has started messing up.The issue of poor services in Nigeria's telecom industry is a major issue and subscribers have complained for long to the NCC. With the recent introduction and launch of Mobile Number Portability into the Nigerian market, competition for customer loyalty would only make GSM service providers to up their game and offer better services.Mobile Number Portability(MNP) is a service that allows a gsm subscriber to move between networks of his choice and still maintain the same phone number.As the name suggests, portability allows you to carry your number from one point to another which in this case is from one network to another just by sending an sms request.In order to migrate from say MTN to Glo with your same phone number, all a subscriber would need to do is visit a Glo office and fill a MNP form, send the required text message "PORT" to 3232 and he would receive a confirmatory text message indicating that the number has been migrated to the recipient which in this case is the GLo network.With Mobile number portability, subscribers on one network would find it easy to move to another network when they feel like it and this is normally the wish of most subscribers when they experience poor service from their network. So assuming you are on the Glo network and unsatisfied with it, you can easily migrate to MTN by visiting an MTN office, filling the form and sending the SMS request.Mobile number Portability would allow Nigerians to become the real oga at the top and no longer at the mercy of under-performing service providers and this works for both prepaid and post paid customers.There have been a lot of poor services which telecom users have been experiencing and these includes:- No GSM network for making calls
- Inability to load airtime recharge PINs
- Unable to receive incoming calls
- Poor USSD service
- No customer serviceThere are some rules for making use of MNP and one of this has to do with the time period for migrating. For a first time user, you can simply migrate to any network but for a second migration, the users would have to stay with the network for at least 90 days before doing a second migration.Nigerians should now rejoice that they can now migrate to second network they feel would best satisfy them if their current one fails to do so.
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