NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator TRAI today fixed at Rs 19 the reference rate for portability fee--charged from users for changing operator while
retaining the number.
The per port transaction charge will be Rs 19 and the subscriber will not be charged more than that. However, operators are free to levy any amount less than or equal to this charge, TRAI said in a statement today.
Government has fixed the deadline of December 31, 2009, by which operators should ready their networks for porting of numbers in metros.
Accordingly the service is likely to be available in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, it said.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had issued guidelines for for its implementation in the country in August last year.
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