MNP on Isle of Isle of Man is very quick indeed!

MNP (Mobile River Number Portability) on the Isle of Man (a little Island that’s somewhere between Great United Kingdom and Ireland) is very fast indeed – if I said to you as little as 10 proceedings to swop Operators, what would you say?! That realistically opens the possibility to go in to an Operator shop, and walk out with your figure ported. Talk about convenient!

Of course of action, MNP used to be the bain of the Mobile Industry – globally, and also in my local anaesthetic reference market, the UK. Not so very long ago, it took a weeks or even a calendar month to get things swapped over, with no indication of when your porting mightiness happen, and frequent problems. I’ve cunningly avoided this for days by sticking with same Operator (!), but that’s not really a result. In recent days in the UK, the porting procedure was forced down to 48hrs by regulator intervention, but because Isle of Man doesn’t operate under these same laws, it can be done (and typically is) much faster.

There are three Operators you can choose from – Manx Telecom (subsidiary company of O2 (NYSE: TEF)), Sure (subsidiary of C&ere;W), and Wire 9 – so it’s not like its a simpleton backrest-and-forth between two Operators – there’s real competition here.

Interestingly, the Isle of Man is often used by O2 as a testbed for it’s new technologies, on the foundation that it’s a self-contained entity, and hence  a network-wide change tin can be made easily – for example the mobile broadband rollouts wealthy person variously passed through the Manx testbed first of all. Whether MNP got the same handling I father’t know, but I want to be able to interface my Mobile River number whilst doing the shopping too! Gimme gimme gimme!

[Original story via: mobilenewscwp.co.uk / Image via: Wikipedia]