Well, Osotsi, I do not think you have understood the real benefit of the MNPP. It fundamentally changes the ownership of a phone number from the GSM Operator to the GSM Subscriber. If you think about it, the subscriber spends effort, money time (eg printing business cards, calendars, calls etc) popularising a particular phone number. This can be valued much in the same way a brand is developed. A simple calculation can then be made to see how much the phone number cost the subscriber (or how much it would cost to start a new number) as follows: SMS to 1,000 contacts @ 1/- = 1,000 Printing 1,000 business cards @ 5/- = 5,000 General loss of business for 'being seemingly unstable' ~ 10,000/= Total = 16,000/- Alternative : Get a new phone to hold new SIM = 2,500/= to 8,500/= (Kabambe to Ideos) This is just for 1 change! Now, compare that to 200/= Porting charge (less than 10% of the cheapest alternative and about 1.25% of the more expensive alternative) ... Plus the fact that the subscriber now owns the number .... for good! Regards, -- Davis The GSM operator can then calculate that for him On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 13:17 +0300, Peter Osotsi wrote:
Who exactly ported, from a sample of 2,000 skunkers? Seems no one is even giving the Porty a chance. Realistically, why port anyway? In any case, even 073* crave for Mpesa, I bet they probably ported 30,000 to 072* yesterday. I wail for 075* & 077*, someone must have set up their failure.
I pity 073* since even my idiot cant be seen from their network (inaonekana kama kabambe), now no internet unless niweke Sfc. Exactly why im not porting there!
Byte in, byte out.