Mobile Number Portability (MNP) allows you to keep your existing mobile telephone number when changing from one mobile service provider (MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile) to one mobile service provider in Nigeria.
Your mobile phone number is important to you. Therefore it is important that you can retain this mobile phone number if you decide to switch to another mobile phone network provider in Nigeria.
Keeping your mobile telephone number is easy. The transfer of your mobile phone number from one mobile phone network provider to another mobile phone network provider is termed porting your mobile phone number.
Porting your mobile phone number is free of charge and takes some minutes depending on the mobile service provider. So just go to the nearest new mobile service provider (MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile) office you want to change to and tell them you want to PORT your number.
Reasons that may necessitate porting your number
1. Bad network: Your current mobile service provider network may be constantly bad or you change your environment and your current mobile service provider network is bad or not available in your new environment.
2. Call tariff: You can change to a mobile service provider network that has a better or charge less call tariff.
3. 4G network: You can change to enjoy fast browsing speed in case your current mobile service provider is not having a 4G network in your environment or their browsing speed is slow.
Benefits of port your number
Mobile Number Portability is cost and time-efficient. Porting your mobile number saves you the cost of updating marketing and business materials, notifying family members, rebranding business materials as a result of changing your mobile number(s) etc.
