Soon, your Glo number can become an MTN line—and vice versa—without you having to change your SIM card. And you may wish to do that at will.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has concluded plans to break the monopoly over numbers of subscribers.
This new regime, known as “number portability”, will allow subscribers to move from one network to the other, without necessarily changing their SIM cards or altering their numbers.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Mr Ernest Ndukwe, disclosed this new plan during the fourth anniversary of the Telecoms Consumer Parliament held in Abuja at the weekend.
Ndukwe said the number portability would help reduce the complaints of “poor quality of service on the network of certain operators”, as subscribers would have the opportunity to change operators at will.
NCC said the number portability would push all the mobile phone operators to reduce their tariffs and improve the quality of their services since the monopoly over subscribers would be removed.
Many subscribers said they had remained on particular mobile networks because of the fear of losing their identified numbers, promising to be more adventurous as soon as the number portability was implemented.

But the Big Question is When Will This Be? Will It Actually Work?

Interesting. Lets wait and see.

i doubt if this arrangement will work in naija? suppose we all decide to migrate to a particular network at the same time. The result is better left unimagined.

It will work and think its good but we must consided disavantages of nextwork congestion and changing problems.if other conutry can do why not Nigeria.

Oh goody! I hope this works. It'll definately spur GSM operators to improve their services.

I dont see NITEL getting spurred by anything in the world.

kamuzu:

I don't see NITEL getting spurred by anything in the world.

LOL! True that!