Much-awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP) looks to finally arrive. US-headquartered Syniverse Technologies said that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approached them with a Letter of Intent (LoT) for implementation of MNP services in India.

Syniverse & Telcordia Technologies are the two companies selected to provide number portability clearance. Both these companies will provide a number portability clearing house and centralized database solutions to telecom operators for the next 10 years.

DoT has already divided the country into two zones for number portability implementation, each of which will be handled by a different MNP provider. Each zone is further broken down into 11 service areas that represent cities within the zone. Syniverse will implement services for the first zone that covers the northern and western regions of the country.

Syniverse has previously implemented MNP in Singapore, the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong.