Over the recent months the telecommunication industry had been hit with a series of push from the government. A case to state is the mobile number portability (MNP), in February (if I am not mistaken), the Minister from the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications announced that the service for MNP will be ready by June. This announcement was a surprise to all the telcos as they had only kickstarted the discussions on implementing the service.
Many things are uncertain at the moment, even if all the telcos could come up with the processes and implementation for the service, the cake is only half baked. The crucial element to the MNP is an intermediary mechanism called the Clearing House. The clearing house is preferably managed by an independent party to be the central governing entity on the porting of subscribers from one telco to the next. With so many controversies on the appointment of the Clearing House, the announcement of the appointment has not been made to date. While telcos are racing against time to meet the dateline, none of them could predict the set of processes for the inter-facing with this clearing house.
June... merely 4 months away. Could it be sufficient time for the telcos to get the processes drawn up and implemented? This would involve amendments to the network configurations, additional porting systems to be in place and other arrangements to be made.
At times there are concerns over the feasibility and rationality of the timeline announced. Could it be similar to the WiMAX bidding? No one seems to know what is the story on that at the moment.
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