16/02/2016
Mobile Number Portability in Trinidad and Tobago
Improving Consumer Choice!
More choice is coming to telephone users in Trinidad and Tobago.
Telephone service providers will meet at the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) in Barataria today, Tuesday February 16th, to sign a contract with porting provider Porting XS of the Netherlands, that will make mobile number portability a reality in Trinidad and Tobago by March 31st 2016.
Number portability gives telephone consumers the choice to change their telephone service providers without changing their numbers.
Consumers can therefore keep their telephone identities (their phone numbers) whilst benefitting from easier access to other service provider packages, without the need to advise friends, family, colleagues, customers and clients that their telephone numbers have changed.
Mobile porting, or moving a telephone number from one service provider to another, can occur on any prepaid or postpaid mobile registered number that is not currently barred or suspended from making outgoing calls.
Porting is as easy as 123! All you need to do is:
1. Visit the provider you want to move to in order to request a port.
2. Complete the Porting Request Form and wait up to three (3) days for porting to take place.
3. Enjoy the new service!
Whilst waiting to port consumers will be able to use their current provider’s service. Consumers will be liable to pay for the usage of that service between the initiation of the port request and when the port is finalised. If there are outstanding contractual charges, these will have to be paid before making the porting request, otherwise the porting request will be rejected.
TATT is pleased to announce this improvement to the telecommunications consumer experience in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (‘the Authority’) was established in July 2004 by the enactment of the Telecommunications Act 2001 Amended by 17 of 2004 as the independent regulatory body responsible for the transformation of the telecommunications sector from a virtual monop…