Number portability atlast

I'm sure people are tired of changing mobile numbers everytime they change service providers and get calls from unknown contacts.

A lot of people have been crying foul about the delay in TRAI’s recommendation. Reliance has been waiting to get a GSM license, and it was alleged, primarily by the GSM operators, that the number portability was being worked upon, primarily to help Reliance. Once the scheme is in place, it was alleged, Reliance can offer lucrative schemes to allure customers from the Reliance CDMA service to its new, GSM service.

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WATBlog

Indian Mobile Carriers Add 8.4M Subs in a month

Unstrung - Handhelds - Indian Mobile Carriers Add 8.4M Subs - Wireless News Analysis

Total of 246 million subscribers. That is just 23% of the population. 500 million by 2009?

via GigaOm

Inspite of eye-popping growth (217 million subscribers by Oct 2007), barely 23% of the population owns a phone. So, there is a vast amount of potential there. In 2007, mobile Value Added Services (VAS) generated $926 Million, which is still barely 7% of the total telecom revenues for Indian operators.

via Startupnewz