VODAFONE Ghana, the tele-communication company, is planning to introduce a Mobile Number Potability (MNP) service into the country soon.
The MNP is a system that provides or allows a customer the flexibility to switch over from one provider to the other without the customer changing his or her number.
The Executive Head of Division, Technical Regulation of Vodacom South Africa, Mr. Mortimer Hope, announced this on Monday at a media sensitisation workshop dubbed ‘Vodafone Telecom Knowledge Series’.
The programme, the first in the series, sought to update the participants on modern trends and developments in the telecom industry.
Mr. Hope said apart from the customer maintaining his or her own number, no added cost is charged on signage or stationary, and also increased value through reduced tariffs and specials.
The system, he said, operates well in South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Taiwan, Australia, Belgium, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Pakistan the United Kingdom among others.
In an address, the chairman for the function, Dr. Kobina Quansah, said it was very important to have such a seminar to enable the public especially journalists, acquaint themselves with trends in the telecommunication industry.
Dr. Quansah, who is also the Board Chairman of Vodafone, said the seminar would go a long way in ironing out public uncertainty over the issue of mobile number portability and its possible effects.
‘I believe that after this seminar, information put out by the media would generate further debate and discussion on the issue, consequently resulting in a better informed society’, he said.
The MNP is a system that provides or allows a customer the flexibility to switch over from one provider to the other without the customer changing his or her number.
The Executive Head of Division, Technical Regulation of Vodacom South Africa, Mr. Mortimer Hope, announced this on Monday at a media sensitisation workshop dubbed ‘Vodafone Telecom Knowledge Series’.
The programme, the first in the series, sought to update the participants on modern trends and developments in the telecom industry.
Mr. Hope said apart from the customer maintaining his or her own number, no added cost is charged on signage or stationary, and also increased value through reduced tariffs and specials.
The system, he said, operates well in South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Taiwan, Australia, Belgium, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Pakistan the United Kingdom among others.
In an address, the chairman for the function, Dr. Kobina Quansah, said it was very important to have such a seminar to enable the public especially journalists, acquaint themselves with trends in the telecommunication industry.
Dr. Quansah, who is also the Board Chairman of Vodafone, said the seminar would go a long way in ironing out public uncertainty over the issue of mobile number portability and its possible effects.
‘I believe that after this seminar, information put out by the media would generate further debate and discussion on the issue, consequently resulting in a better informed society’, he said.
