BUSINESS CORNER
Mobile Number
Portability Now
Available in
the OECS
Mobile Number Portability launches
across the ECTEL region
Change your service provider Enhancing consumer choice with Number portability for fixed
without having to change your the ability to “port” their number or landline telephone numbers
mobile telephone number. also promotes competition will be available at a later date
as providers compete to once alternative fixed telephone
Number portability offers a offer services and prices they services are available across the
special enhancement to consumer believe to be most attractive to ECTEL region.
choice in markets where there is consumers.
more than one telephone service
provider. Number portability, or From June 3, 2019, number
number porting, enables users portability for mobile or cellular
to keep their current telephone telephone numbers has been
number when switching from available across the ECTEL
one telecommunications service region (Dominica, Grenada,
provider to another. St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia
and St. Vincent & the
Removing the hassle/inconvenience
Grenadines).
of having to inform all of your
contacts – family, friends,
colleagues, customers, and clients
– that your number has changed
out of the equation means that
consumers can focus their
decision on important issues
such as service, quality and
price. Simply, consumers may
select the service provider of
their choice and still keep their
number.
Before number portability,
switching to a new service
provider also meant
having to get a new
telephone number.
8 SL-YOU | It’s All About Business
www.slyoumag.com | September-October 2019