Over 55,000 subscribers successfully port their numbers

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the UAE reported that as of May 18, 2014, 55,555 mobile numbers were successfully transferred out of the 190,185 mobile number porting requests received by telecom operators since the official launch of the mobile number portability (MNP) service in December 2013. The implementation process of the service has thus reached 30 per cent.

134,222 applications have been rejected, including applications that have been re-submitted more than once by the same owner of the mobile number. The reasons for rejection were identified under the service instructions that are available with service providers and focus on the mismatch of subscribers’ names with the applicants’ names, or non-completion of transfer request numbers.