MTNL assures users of fixed numbers

NEW DELHI: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) has welcomed the steps taken by the Government in announcing mobile number portability.

The state-run telecom operator MTNL is confident that it will generate additional opportunity for MTNL as it is expected that some of the high-end customers will be facilitated to migrate to MTNL.

MTNL had entered GSM space almost six years later than the competitors due to various reasons which included the court case filed by the competitors to prevent MTNL's entry into mobile services.
 
The Indian government has said it planned to allow mobile phone subscribers to keep the same number when they changed networks in the four cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai, by the fourth quarter of 2008.