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,
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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.