Pakistan Selects Telcordia for Mobile Number Portability

Pakistan MNP Database (PMD), the joint venture set up by the Pakistani mobile operators to manage number portability on their behalf has signed a contract with Telcordia to impliment its clearinghouse services.

PMD will be using the Telcordia Number Portability Clearinghouse solution as its centralized repository for number porting.

MNP has been implemented on March 23, 2007, the National Day of Pakistan.

Telcordia Number Portability Clearinghouse automates ordering, provisioning, notification and administration and allows service providers to rely on the same set of rules for handling port requests, so number exchanges can occur quickly and accurately.

"Number portability is reshaping telecom on a global scale and the clearinghouse solution allows operators to be more responsive to customers while providing regulators with a powerful and flexible way to manage number portability," said Richard Jacowleff, President, Interconnection Solutions, Telcordia.

In addition to providing the Telcordia Number Portability Clearinghouse solution to PMD, three Pakistani mobile phone service providers have also selected Telcordia for their own number portability needs.

The trio have selected the Telcordia Number Portability Gateway solution, which provides a single, operator-based control point for mobile and fixed-line operators to manage the complex interfaces, message processing and transaction data associated with number portability requirements."

Posted to the site on 23rd March 2007