{"id":550936,"date":"2006-11-27T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550936-number-portability-provides-problems-for-value-added-services.html"},"modified":"2006-11-27T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T17:36:43","slug":"number-portability-provides-problems-for-value-added-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550936-number-portability-provides-problems-for-value-added-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Number portability provides problems for value-added services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet, consumers should realise that at this stage, a change of network does not mean the seamless continuation of value-added mobile services offered by wireless application service providers (WASPs).<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cNetwork preference can be swapped without losing your cellphone number. What you may lose is the ability to reply to messaging services supported by WASPs. There is a concern that certain value-added mobile services do not work after you have ported,\u201d says Dr Pieter E. Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com. <\/font><\/p>\n

Number portability could affect a range of mobile services. These value-added services include: subscription services, location-based services, interactive competition and voting lines, mobile clubs, SMS dating and reply stop message functions. <\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally, when a consumer ports their cellphone number to a new network provider, they should be able to access all the mobile messaging services they are used to receiving.\u201d says Streicher.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The following examples point to some of the problems with number portability. <\/font><\/p>\n

* A consumer joins a location-based service and wishes to track the location of a family member. This involves a confirmation request sent to the family member via SMS. If the family member has a ported number, a problem arises when he or she attempts to reply to the message. The ‘message originator\u2019 is still linked to the original network provider, and the new network will drop the reply message as it does not recognise the ‘message originator\u2019 number.<\/font> <\/p>\n

* All subscription services are lost at porting, and consumers would need to re-subscribe to use the service again.<\/font> <\/p>\n

* Consumers with ported numbers will be unable to reply with ‘stop\u2019 to unwanted messages.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as we can see, the uptake of number portability has been quite slow. but may well increase as soon as there is an increase in consumer confidence in the porting process. For the time being, consumers would be wise to wait until all mobiles services can be seamlessly ported between networks,\u201d concludes Streicher.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Number portability aims to give SA consumers greater choice of network provider while retaining their cellphone numbers. This is good news for consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}