A few questions about mobile number portability

[Jaymin]

So, I'm gonna be porting my idea postpaid number to some other operator later this month. Havent decided which one yet. Anyone here who has ported their postpaid connection ? If so, i'd like to know how do I go about clearing my bills and is there anything that idea can use to reject my request as my connection is postpaid ?

Hahaha!! 21 days after ur first post!! And who knows when did u start thinking on it outside of internet, i mean it wud be even before u actually posted! 😀 Why did it take so long re? Last year, when i wanted to port out, i was stuck as i had 200-300 odd balance in my prepaid account. But u have a billing one, so even that shudnt have been an issue!

 

[x720]

Actually, its a long story. Thing is mtnl 3g is cheap, and I tend to use a lot of data, and getting mtnl postpaid in Gurgaon means traveling half way across the city to the sanchar haat and since I can't drive, yet , someone has to take me there, and that needs a lot of convincing 😛 (mtnl's rep +distance) hence, it took me so long 😀

 

[x720]

Update 2Got mtnl sim. Mtnl says number will be ported by Tuesday or Wednesday . Lets see how it goes.

 

[Jaymin]

U shud hope that it happens at night only. I have heard quite a few cases where it happened in the middle of the day!

 

[x720]

I really don't mind the time of porting. I prefer to use the landline most of the times.

 

[IndianMascot]

U shud hope that it happens at night only. I have heard quite a few cases where it happened in the middle of the day!


Middle of the Day 😀

My Phone was dead for 18 hours including working hrs .

 

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[Jaymin]

Thankfully, my porting happened around 11-11:30 PM in the night! That too, in about 25-30 minutes.

 

[gadgetcrazy]

Yeah. In my case they took about 10 hours and that too during day time. Thankfully it was a Sunday. But mine was a CDMA to GSM port.
I wonder if that makes a difference. U shud hope that it happens at night only. I have heard quite a few cases where it happened in the middle of the day!

 

[Jaymin]

Could be one of the reasons. But as Mascot also shared.....it took 18 hours when he was porting, including day time.

 

[popcorn]

Thankfully, my porting happened around 11-11:30 PM in the night! That too, in about 25-30 minutes.

same with me.... but it was just 1 min at 11:30 ... network vanished in front og my eyes and new operator sim I put in and it was activated. The whole process was in 1 minute...

 

[IndianMascot]

Yeah. In my case they took about 10 hours and that too during day time. Thankfully it was a Sunday. But mine was a CDMA to GSM port.
I wonder if that makes a difference.

Mine was too INP . BUt I think it would have been done till now.

 

[Jaymin]

same with me.... but it was just 1 min at 11:30 ... network vanished in front og my eyes and new operator sim I put in and it was activated. The whole process was in 1 minute...

Wonder who can get luckier than this! Which was ur port out & which was ur port in?

 

[x720]

I'm just wondering, how many days did it take you all to receive the message stating confirmation of your porting request ?

 

[Jaymin]

It took me around 7 odd days to get that message. In fact on the night i received the message, i was desperate since morning. I think i even posted in some thread as to what shuddering i do if i dont get the message. But luckily that night itselfbi got the message of porting, and it went thru further late into the night.

 

[IndianMascot]

SLA is of 7 days from date of UPC code. Keep waiting 😉