{"id":438,"date":"2006-10-30T04:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T09:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/30\/number-portability-only-next-year-wake-up-mcmc"},"modified":"2006-10-30T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T09:02:07","slug":"number-portability-only-next-year-wake-up-mcmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/30\/number-portability-only-next-year-wake-up-mcmc","title":{"rendered":"Number portability, only next year? Wake up MCMC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has decided that by December, next year<\/a> mobile number portability will be available in Malaysia. This has been available in Australia since September, and more importantly in Singapore since 1997<\/strong>! (read more on mobile number portability<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A proposal has been floating around since 2004, and its going to take them another year to implement it. Three years to conduct research<\/em>. Datuk Dr Halim Shafie, heading the Commission and all their research<\/em> has decided that Maxis, Celcom and DiGi are receptive to the idea – so what’s the reason for the deferment?<\/p>\n

Healthy competition between three providers is hard to do. Opening that limit up in itself will encourage more competition (even for service reselling, like how B resells Optus). Of course in Malaysia, its all about protecting the connected<\/em> companies. <\/p>\n

“Telcos in those countries have improved their delivery services since MNP was implemented,” he added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems like Halim Shafie knows what MNP will mean for the consumer. Yet, its been dished about for the last couple of years. Let’s hail the day a consumer rights group in Malaysia will actually be taken seriously or perform useful actions.
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Technorati Tags: malaysia<\/a>, mcmc<\/a>, MNP<\/a>, mobile<\/a>, number<\/a>, portability<\/a><\/p>\n

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