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II INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS 

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 Qafqaz University                         

          18-19 April 2014, Baku, Azerbaijan 

SUGGESTED MODEL FOR MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY 

 

Khayyam MASIYEV, Bahri MAMMADGULUBAY  

Qafqaz University 

[e-mail], [e-mail] 

AZƏRBAYCAN 

 

Nowadays, Mobile Telecommunications became an important part of our lives. More and more people cannot imagine 

their life without mobile phone, mobile services, accessing to internet through mobile devices. At the same time, Mobile 

Technologies are developing day by day, giving customers’ new opportunities, and opening new ways of communication, 

entertainment and business.  One of the new features of Mobile Technologies, which has been introduced recently, is 

switching mobile service providers without changing mobile telephone number. It is called Mobile Number Portability 

(MNP).  

Mobile Number Portability service is very popular in the range of countries around the globe. If by the end of the XX

th 

century, there were only five counties which have enabled this feature, by 2014 this number has increased to 65. It is very 

positive fact that, finally Azerbaijan is also among those countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information 

Technologies of Azerbaijan has declared the end of “mobile slavery” in the country. The Ministry announced that the MNP 

service has been officially launched on February 1

st

, 2014. The service is being provided by all mobile operators, which 

achieved readiness for service status and fulfilled all the necessary prerequisites by MCIT of Azerbaijan. The service launch 

has been expected in August 2013, however not all mobile operators were able to complete the preparatory work last year. 

MNP enables mobile subscribers to retain their mobile numbers while changing from one mobile operator to another. It 

allows subscribers to switch their telecom service provider without changing numbers and prefixes used previously. Before 

Mobile Number Portability the following prefixes were distributed between mobile network operators in Azerbaijan: 

(051,050) for Azercell; (070,077) for Azerfon and (055) for Bakcell. After implementation of MNP, this prefix division 

loses its actuality. At the moment NDCs (National Destination Codes. Ex: 055) is not a firm indicator which mobile 

operator is serving a particular subscriber. Subscribers can enjoy special offers and promotions of any mobile operator 

within the Country irrespectively on which NDC is being used. In long term perspective MNP will improve the competition 

on the market and the quality of service.   

MNP is implemented in different ways across the globe. The method of implementation depends on regulatory defined 

rules and IT technologies involvements. There are different types Call routings: Direct (ACQ) and Indirect (OR). Also MNP 

numbers database can be centralized or distributed. The specific role played by duration of porting process. This is time 

period between subscribers requested to switch his mobile service provider and migration to this provider accomplished. 

Depending on country, porting process period is changing between 0-30 working days. Also the price for porting execution 

which deducting from customer varies. The service is for free in most of countries, but it’s chargeable in others.  

The purpose of this study is to investigate the MNP solution applied is Azerbaijan. The analysis of the model is 

necessary to find main advantages and disadvantages of current MNP model. One of the main and noticeable problems of 

current model in Azerbaijan is relatively long period of porting duration. For subscribers, 6 days of porting process is long 

enough period that might influence the subscriber decision to switch between service providers. Studies of international 

experiences have shown that the porting duration is very important and directly impacts porting rate of numbers.  

Porting time depends both on the technical implementation of porting systems and on the willingness of networks to 

speed up the porting process. Involved MNP technologies play an important role in determining the porting duration. 

Reducing the porting time increases the cost of MNP implementation.  

Thebest practices of worldwide MNP implementations, countries’ related specifics will be rewired. Overall MNP 

related problems will be indicated and possible solutions will be proposed in this thesis. As the result, it’s expected to find 

the balance between the implementation costs, processes effectiveness and orientation on customer which will be the best 

indication for potential enhancement of MNP service in Azerbaijan. 

References 

1.  Kwame A.P. Agyekum, Eric T. Tchao and Emmanuel Affum.: “Evaluation of Mobile Number Portability 

Implementation in Ghana” Working paper, October 2013. Online: http://www.ijcst.org/Volume4/Issue10/p6_4_10.pdf 

2.  ANNEX No.2 TO THE AGREEMENT ON MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY CLEARINGHOUSE SERVICE 

in Azerbaijan, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES, June 2012 

3.  Ashish Siwach.: “Mobile Number Portability in INDIA”, Article, December 2011. Online: http://research.ijcaonl 

ine.org/rtmc/number6/rtmc1043.pdf 

4.  “Azerbaijani mobile operator launches Mobile Number Portability service” Article, online: 

http://en.trend.az/regions/scaucasus/azerbaijan/2176097.html 

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