The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked all operators to submit a detailed status report on mobile number portability (MNP) by February 2, 2011, according to news reports. This follows the DoT’s monitoring wing received several complaints that customers of all operators were facing difficulty porting out from their existing service providers.

Each company has been asked to submit a detailed factsheet on the total number of port-outs, port-ins and the number of successful unique porting codes (UPCs) generated since January 20.