FPT IS successfully built and launched mobile number portability
The mobile number portability implemented by FPT IS for the Telecommunications Department - Ministry of Information and Communications just put into operation is a big step of the domestic mobile market promoting telecommunication enterprises to enhance their competitiveness by improving the quality of services
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26/11/2018
The mobile number portability implemented by FPT Information System (FPT IS) for the Telecommunications Department - Ministry of Information and Communications just put into operation is a big step of the domestic mobile market promoting telecommunication enterprises to enhance their competitiveness by improving the quality of services and customer care. After 10 days of operation, the system has continuously received and successfully handled transfer requests.
This is one of the national key systems built and developed by FPT IS in collaboration with Iconectiv and Telecommunications Department - Telecommunications Department - Ministry of Information and Communications within nearly 1 year. The system is capable of integrating with the systems of the network providers with the amount of data and the number of users interacting with the system up to millions. In addition, the system also meets high-security standards, separated connection links due to a large amount of personal information stored and transmitted between the parties.
With more than 20 years of experience, FPT IS has cooperated with partners successfully in the process of Mobile Number Portability in only 2 months.
Mr. Nguyen Van Khoa – Deputy Director of FPT Corporation, General Director of FPT IS stated: “Vietnam is one of the pioneers in deploying mobile number portability in Asia. This represents the determination of the Ministry of Information and Communication to continuously improve the telecommunications market in the country. This service is also related to the trend of personalized phone numbers, promoting e-commerce, and e-wallets through the use identification of mobile numbers. The fact that FPT IS was assigned the task of building this national technology system has confirmed the prestige and capability of FPT IS in the IT sector for the telecommunication industry”.
In order to keep the Mobile Number Portability system going, FPT IS and its partners have gone through many stages: Establishing the national network switching center; Integrating National Network Switching Center with systems of network operators; Run real load tests and officially operate the system. Especially, within 2 months only, FPT IS and Inconectiv partnered with Telecom Department to successfully build up the process of transferring the number of subscribers. According to Ahsan Vaqar, Iconectiv’s Global Program Manager, this is a “no-brainer” for Iconnectiv’s experience with other countries for at least 6-8 months. This confirms the capability and experience in deploying national problems of Vietnamese technology enterprises such as FPT IS.