More subscribers register for the Mobile Number Portability

Accra, July 20, GNA - A National Communications Authority (NCA) analysis has indicated that 5,631 subscribers had so far moved from one mobile service provider to another while retaining their mobile number after a day.

This showed the understanding of the exercise after the introduction within 10 and this performance compares favorably with recent Mobile Number Portability (MNP) implementations in other countries, where porting a mobile number could take up to seven days.

The analysis was contained in a statement from the NCA to indicate how fast the exercise was in Ghana as compared to other countries.

The NCA said the fastest port recorded so far in Ghana took place in a mere 1 minute, 31 seconds with the average porting time for the first 10n days being 4 hours, 17 minutes.

NCA’s analysis of the data for these first ten days showed that of the porting requests completed, 12 per cent were completed in 15 minutes or less, 22 per cent were completed in 30 minutes or less, 36 per cent were completed in 1 hour or less, 72 per cent were completed in 4 hours or less, 14 per cent completed between 4 and 12 hours, 13 per cent completed between 12 and 24 hours and less than one percent were completed in more than 24 hours.

It noted that Ghana was also among the few countries which had launched the service in the month first promised.

“Ghana mobile phone subscribers are reminded that when they sign the porting request form and send the validation text message, they are moving their number from their current mobile service provider to a new one. They are closing their account at the old network, and when the porting is completed, they will no longer be using the old SIM” it said.

NCA said they were pleased with the public response to MNP so far but assured of monitoring the process to ensure that rules were followed and that the process was serving the public interest as intended.

It stated that with MNP was entitled to move from one network to another without changing the number but losses the contract with the previous network.