The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced March 26 as the launch date of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP).
Director of Public Affairs of the commission, Tony Ojobo made this disclosure during Channels Television’s flagshipprogramme, Sunrise Daily, today in the video above.
“There will be a launch by the end of this month, we are going to flag it off’’
“So we are looking at the 26th of March or there about”.
Ojobo said the MNP will enable a consumer move from his service provider to another without losing the number healready uses despitethe change in the SIMcard of the consumer.
The service however will not be available to consumers who haven’t registered their SIM cards.
He further said service providers who try to woo consumers that havesubmitted request forms to another service provider will be dealt with by the commission.
The ability to chooseor fire your GSM service provider is one whose time has come in Nigeria, and will only deepen competition among operators and improve service quality, so i think its a good one.

[Wasconet]