The Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was launched across India on 20th January this year. According to COAI report published this March, Vodafone was on top spot in the MNP, followed by Idea Cellular. Now, Idea overtook Vodafone with the net addition of 800 thousand subscribers, while Vodafone moved to the second place with the net addition of 700 thousand.

Idea Cellular gained 1.9 million subscribers and lost 10.8 million subscribers with the net porting percentage of 0.87%. Vodafone gained 21.8 million customers and lost 14.7 million customers with the net porting percentage of 0.50%. Bharti Airtel maintains the 3rd place by gaining 23.3 million customers and losing 16.7 million customers and has a net porting percentage of 0.38.

Reliance is still at the bottom with the 1.6 million subscribers porting out. BSNL has lost�500 thousand subscribers, and the�main reason of the�subscribers�porting out from BSNL�have been reported to be network / coverage issues and �tariff issues.

Table showing subscriber porting after MNP (as on 30.6.2011)

Source : Medianama