Number portability feature shows more joining BSNL than leaving it: Prasad

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has said that the number of customers moving into its network is higher than those leaving it, making its mobile number portability (MNP) positive during 2019-20 so far, Parliament was informed on Thursday.

The number of port-ins stood at 5.36 million, against 2.82 million port outs in 2018-19, and thereafter the numbers cumulative up to October 2019 was 20.4 million (port-ins) against 18 million(port-outs).

“BSNL has informed that number of customers ported in to BSNL is higher than the ported-out customer of BSNL. BSNL’s MNP is positive during 2019-20 (till October, 2019),” Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.