Telecommunication MNP (Ninth Amendment) Regulations, 2024, from TRAI

The implementation of the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Ninth Amendment) Regulations, 2024 w.e.f. 00:00:00 hours of 01.07.2024

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, on 14th March 14, 2024, issued the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Ninth Amendment) Regulations, 2024. They will come into force on July 1, 2024.

These amendment regulations aim to curb mobile number porting through fraudulent SIM swap replacement by unscrupulous elements. Through these amendment regulations, an additional criterion for rejecting a request for allocation of a Unique Porting Code (UPC) has been introduced. Specifically, a UPC shall not be allocated if the request for the UPC has been made seven days before the expiry date of the SIM swap replacement.

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