Following a feasibility study, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has concluded that mobile number portability (MNP) is not necessary until the wireless subscriber tally is higher. 'At this stage, number portability is not something we see as a remedy in this market,' Patrick Masambu, executive director of the UCC, said.
'We carried out a study into this and we have the conclusion that there is a certain subscriber sum we need before we introduce number portability because of the costs involved.' Masambu said that MNP will only make sense when there are ten million mobile subscribers in the country.
At the time the UCC conducted the study Uganda had three million users, a figure which had jumped to 8.7 million by the end of 2008.
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