{"id":6634,"date":"2021-04-08T02:33:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomaszdomanski.eu\/en\/?page_id=6634"},"modified":"2023-05-02T04:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:08:05","slug":"mnp-fnp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomaszdomanski.eu\/en\/mnp-fnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio | MNP-FNP"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Implementation of the number portability service<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Case study<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The launch of the number portability service in mobile telephony networks (Mobile Number Portability) and in fixed-line telephony networks (Fixed Number Portability) was of great importance for telephone users and network operators, although different. It enabled the customers of the network to freely choose the market offer without having to give up their number. This was particularly important for companies using a certain pool of catalog numbers entered into communication procedures with their clients and partners. However, the need to launch this service has raised serious concerns among network operators. Many individual customers and companies stayed with their operators only because changing a directory number or a pool of numbers would be troublesome, costly and burdened with the risk of losing important contacts. The ability to keep their numbers opened the way for them to take advantage of better market offers.<\/p>

The NP (Number Portability) project was initiated at Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (T-Mobile Polska) in the DNO (Division of Network Operations) division, and then came to me (Director of the Business Development Office). The project tasks went beyond strictly technical issues and required establishing multi-threaded cooperation with all telecommunications network operators – mobile and fixed. The introduction of number portability services was carried out under strong pressure from the European Union authorities and the Polish telecommunications market regulator – the President of the Office of Telecommunications and Post Regulation. Failure to meet the deadline for launching the MNP service was punishable by a loss of 3% of the operator’s annual income.<\/p>

The NP project covered activities in two separate service spheres – in the sphere of mobile telephony and in the sphere of fixed telephony. Three operators were present in the mobile telephony sector at that time (2005-2006): PTK Centertel, Polkomtel and PTC. They were soon joined by P4 – the operator of the Play network. A little later, Mobile Virtual Network Operators appeared, for whom the number portability service was of fundamental importance in the context of the possibility of developing their business. There were about 170 operators in the fixed telephony sector, with Telekomunikacja Polska (today Orange) dominating the market.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Challenges<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The implementation of MNP and FNP services differed from the implementation of other telecommunications services in that it had to be carried out in cooperation with competing companies afraid of losing their customers. For this reason, the design procedure was conducted in an atmosphere of great distrust and hard negotiation of technical, procedural and business arrangements. This, of course, made it difficult to reach final arrangements and agreements.<\/p>

The implementation of the MNP and FNP services required many changes to ICT systems, establishing and implementing customer service procedures, agreeing on the method of directing telecommunications traffic to ported numbers (with or without a central base), as well as analyzing the security of systems, updating the principles of interconnect settlements and concluding new contracts about cooperation. Coordination of numerous project issues, located in distant fields, required an interdisciplinary approach to planning and coordinating project tasks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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One of the biggest challenges was to ensure effective communication between groups of various specialists, both within the company and on the inter-operator forum. Technical, procedural and financial arrangements were finally confirmed in formalized inter-operator agreements resulting from hard and painstaking negotiations. In the talks, which were attended simultaneously by engineers, lawyers, traders and financial analysts, it was crucial to use a language understandable to everyone and to clearly explain complex specialist issues.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The structure of the MNP project<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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