Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 30/ Trend H. Valiyev /
The rules of rendering Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service were officially registered at the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies told Trend on Thursday.
The document was prepared by the Ministry together with mobile phone operators.
The service is expected to be available in the operators' network in 2012
Operators have to prepare network infrastructure to render this service. The service will be launched simultaneously by all three GSM operators.
MNP service will allow subscribers to preserve their phone number in case of changing the operators.
The introduction of the MNP service increases the competition.