Retain Number While Switching To a Different Mobile Phone Operator Comning 2012

Retain Number While Switching To a Different Mobile Phone Operator Comning 2012
The parliamentary standing committee on the telecom ministry has recommended the industry watchdog to introduce mobile number portability (MNP) service by 2012.

MNP is a service that allows cell phone users to retain their number while switching to a different mobile operator.

The committee made the recommendations at a meeting on Sunday, with its chief Hasanul Haque Inu in the chair.

After the meeting, Inu told reporters that MNP had been introduced in many countries a decade back. "A four-member committee led by a director has been formed to prepare a guideline on number portability which is about to be finished," he added.

Bangladesh's six mobile phone operators currently have around 80 million subscribers.

The meeting was attended, among others, by whip A S M Firoj, Abdul Odud, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Nazrul Islam Babu and Muazzem Hossain Ratan.