It also asked for the porting codes to be kept valid till 45 days, a month longer than the norm of 15 days. All carriers and MNP providers have been asked not to reject porting requests of mobile numbers active for less than three months on Aircel’s network. "Furnish monthly subscriber-wise information of unspent balance amount for all the ported out prepaid subscribers, from February 27 till April 15,” Trai said in its directions to Aircel. Exits of two of its top executives followed this week. Industry insiders added that the chances of intra-circle roaming pacts happening also look slim, consider that the agreements also involve monetary payments, which Aircel would find it difficult to do, considering it had not been able to make payments for interconnect services from other carriers.

Source: Economic Times February 27, 2018 14:44 UTC