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3/12/2010 9:49 AM
The roll-out in India of mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to delay beyond a March 31 deadline, because operators have not yet upgraded their infrastructure, the country's minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat, said on Thursday.MNP will give mobile subscribers the option to retain their mobile numbers even if they change service providers. India had 545 million mobile subscribers at the end of January, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).Under guidelines proposed by TRAI, mobile users will be allowed to use the same mobile number even if providers use different mobile technologies like CDMA (code division multiple access) or GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). This will be the second time that the roll-out of MNP has been delayed. The service was originally scheduled to be offered in December of last year, starting with four large cities and some key service areas.
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