12.36 Million SIM Porting Requests Got here in Jan 2024

Over 12.36 million Indians requested to port their SIM from the present operator to a different telecom operator within the nation in January 2024. Customers have the appropriate to utilise the Cell Quantity Portability (MNP) system to port their present telephone quantity to the opposite telecom operator’s community. There is a course of that an individual has to comply with to port their SIM playing cards, however it’s a pretty easy one.

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In keeping with the TRAI knowledge printed within the month-to-month efficiency indicator report of January 2024, a complete of 12.36 million MNP requests had been acquired by the telecom operators in India. Out of this, round 7.12 million requests got here from Zone-1 and the remaining 5.24 million requests got here from Zone-2.

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MNP was first applied on November 25, 2010, and since then, a complete of 939.55 million MNP requests have been made. Within the coming months, it’s going to contact the billion requests determine.

Zone-1 contains the Northern and Western India and Zone-2 contains the Southern and Jap India. Since a lot of the customers throughout the month had been misplaced by Vodafone Concept (Vi) and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted), it would not be too harsh to imagine that a lot of the MNP requests got here from their subscribers.

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Notice that MNP requests do not essentially imply that porting occurs. Generally, the customers make the request however then do not comply with via with it and stick with their present operator. In keeping with the TRAI knowledge for the month, Jio added essentially the most wi-fi customers to its subscriber base (ensuing within the growth of its wi-fi subscriber market share) adopted by Airtel. BSNL and Vi proceed to lose subscribers and market share to Bharti Airtel and Jio.

Even within the energetic customers division, solely Airtel and Jio noticed progress, whereas BSNL and Vi noticed a decline in numbers.