Mobile number portability (MNP) definitely rang good news for complaining consumers. Soon after a pan-India roll out on January 20, nearly a million mobile users have sought to switch numbers, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources.
It is learnt that nearly 270,000 users have switched operators till now. Major gainers of MNP are Vodafone, Idea, Airtel and Aircel while losers include BSNL, Rel Comm and Tata Tele (CDMA). Vodafone has gained the highest with a new addition of 1.09 lakh users.
Out of the total, Idea gained 56,000 users, Aircel's net gain stood at 52,000 users while Airtel's added 29,000 users.
Sources add that most porting requests from CDMA to GSM.
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