MNP delay: It's all ICASA's fault...

I am not so sure that some of the cellco's wouldn't like to get through the busy christmas period first...
 
Goodie - time to play the blame game :rolleyes:
 
He said number portability would bring benefits to prepaid and postpaid customers. The cost to port a number would be in the range of R40 to R70 per number, he added.
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Where did he thumbsuck that figure from :confused:

Anyway as long as it's free to the customer we don't care how much it costs them.
 
Highflyer_GP said:
Where did he thumbsuck that figure from :confused:

Anyway as long as it's free to the customer we don't care how much it costs them.
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You're suggesting some of the operators will bite the cost? I can see that eventually.
 
if the operators hired a 100 techies and a 100 analysts and a 100 testers, it could be done by the 18th, by why should they go thro all that trouble and money.
 
I hope it does not cost to switch otherwise why bother, just get another sim.. well the poor do that already.
 
“The perception has been generated that the network operators, especially MTN and Vodacom, are dragging their heels with regard to number portability, but this is not true. We want to see the system up and running as soon as possible. However, a lot depends on what Grintek can achieve in the time allocated and the testing is difficult.”

He said there is a big difference between testing a small batch of numbers and a batch of several million numbers.
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Considering the numbers will only grow as fast as they can process porting applications, I don't see the relevance. Impliment, and if the system starts taking strain, take a break on processing porting apps.

I think the network operators have been learning from their fixed line counterpart (or is that master?).
 
They should make sure their supplier delivers on time, first time.
They do after all get the big bucks, might as well earn it.
 
If you give Grintek an open-ended project they will never deliver.

Indications are that MTN is expecting to go live with MNP on Monday. I think they're ready, but hoping to stall.
 
noxibox said:
If you give Grintek an open-ended project they will never deliver.

Indications are that MTN is expecting to go live with MNP on Monday. I think they're ready, but hoping to stall.
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Sounds about right to me? :rolleyes:

If MNP was mission critical to their business it would have been done completed and implemented long ago.
Where there is a will, there is a way.

I do not for a second believe that the blame must all fall on ICASA, although they are known for dragging their feet.
ICASA is not in the Cell Phone Business.
MTN, Cell C and Vodacom are. If they really wanted something to work and be up and running in time they would have made it so.
 
How does this work. They are already 3 months past the original implementation date and are complaining about a 2.5 month delay that would not change the June date. And this is what is delaying the Sept implementation date? Planks.
 
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