TECHNICAL SEMINAR REPORT ON

MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

award of
The Graduate degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Submitted by
M P PRASHANTHI PRIYANKA
07311A0451

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sreenidhi Institute of science and Technology
Yamnampet, Ghatkesar, Hyderabad-500005
2010-2011.

SREENIDHI INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY

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 Yamnampet, Ghatkesar, Hyderabad-500005

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Technical Seminar entitled “ MOBILE NUMBER

PORTABILITY ” given by M P PRASHANTHI PRIYANKA(07311A0451) in partial fulfillment

of the requirement for the award of the graduate degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY in

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION at the Sreenidhi Institute of Science and

Technology.

(Signature) (signature of
HOD)

Seminar Co-ordinator Prof.S.Bhujanga Rao

Mrs V.Sudha Rani/ Mrs R.Sandhya
Department of E.C.E,(SNIST).

Associate professor,

Department of E.C.E, (SNIST).

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ABSTRACT:

Mobile number portability allows a mobile subscriber to switch operators without changing
his/her telephone number. This paper describes and analyzes mobile number portability routing
mechanisms and their implementation costs. Cost recovery issues for number portability are
discussed in this paper from a technical perspective. We note that rules for cost recovery also
depend on business and regulatory factors that vary from country to country.

This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number

portability (MNP). If the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs,
MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer
ignorance, as telephone numbers no longer identify networks; mobile operators will increase
termination charges, with ambiguous net effect on the surplus of mobile customers.

Mobile number portability (MNP) requires that mobile telephone customers

can keep their telephone number–including the prefix–when switching from one provider of
mobile Tele communications services to another. In the absence of MNP, customers have to give
up their number and must adopt a new one when they switch operators. As a result, customers
face switching costs associated with informing people about changing their number, printing new
business cards, missing valuable calls from people that do not have the new number, etc. Based
on these considerations, many regulatory authorities have imposed mandatory MNP–or are about
to require its introduction–so as to reduce customers’ switching costs, attempting to make mobile
telecommunications more competitive The world’s first country to introduce MNP was
Singapore in 1997.

This paper introduces the concept of number portability, explains its different
types and benefits, and the technical, operational, and economic issues that might arise out of its
implementation in India. The specific issues such as ensuring tariff transparency, the National
Numbering Plan, and regulating porting charges, etc. have been raised and will need careful
consideration.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT

LIST OF FIGURES
1 INTODUCTION…………………………………………………1
2 NUMBER PORTABILITY FOR MOBILE TELE- …………..3
PHONE NETWORKS

2.1 Impact of number portability…………………………………...4

3 CALL ROUTING MECHANISMS…………………………...5

3.1 The SRF-Based Solution for Call Related Signaling………….6

3.1.1 Direct Routing Scenario (DR)……………………………………7

3.1.2 Indirect Routing Scenario (IR-I)………………………………....9
3.1.3 Indirect Routing with Reference to the Subscription Network…..10

3.2 The SRF-based Solution for Non-Call Related Signaling…….11

3.2.1 Short Message Service Direct Routing Scenario (SMS-DR)……..12
3.2.2 Short Message Service Indirect Routing Scenario (SMS-IR)……13
3.3 The-IN based Solution for Call Related Signaling…………….14
4 COSTS…………………………………………………………...16
4.1 Number Porting and Cost Recovery…………………………...16
4.2 Costs of Number Portability…………………………………….16
5 REASONS BEHIND MNP OR ADVANTAGES……………..18

5.1 Reasons…………………………………………………………...18

5.2 Advantages……………………………………………………….19
6 MNP FACTS…………………………………………………….20

7 EFFECT ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET………21

LIST OF FIGURES

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Figure 1. A simplified GSM call termination procedure without number portability…………..6

Figure 2. SRF-based directed routing (DR)……………………………………………………..7

Figure 3. SRF-based indirect routing (IR-I)……………………………………………………..9

Figure 4. SRF-based indirect routing with reference to the subscription network (IR-II)……...10

Figure 5. SRF-based SMS-direct routing (SMS-DR)…………………………………………...12

Figure 6. SRF-based SMS-indirect routing (SMS-IR)………………………………………….13

Figure 7. IN-based query on HLR release (QoHR)……………………………………………..14