Its a very difficult situation when you change your mobile  number often because you just relocated to some other state. You need to message or email your new number to all your contacts and takes a while to remember your own new number. And also spend some amount on taking a new number.

Even though roaming charges have slashed in India, its quite uneasy to talk when the incoming call is charged and the SMS rates are high on roaming.

All these problems will soon come to an end because TRAI is setting up regulations for MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY,i.e. you will soon be able to use the same mobile number with any operator in India. Say, when you relocate from Bangalore to Mumbai, and you have a Vodafone connection in Bangalore, you can just use the same mobile number in Mumbai with an Airtel Connection.

And the process will be made quite easy too. Just that TRAI has issued a guideline that the number will not be portable until completion 90 days with a career.  There will be charges for migrating from one career to another. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has already appointed two companies — Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnect — to be the MNP service provider, manage day-to-day management and implementation, and also maintain the database of all numbers.

MNP is ready to roll out on September 20th 2009 in the metros and the A category locations like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat. Rest of the country will see the MNP in March 2010.

HTC Magic, which is the second Android phone that was released by Vodafone UK quite sometime back.  Android, the most anticipated mobile OS is greatly expected in many countries.

Many countries have already experienced and enjoyed Android, but a few are still left out. India is one of the major markets still left out by HTC & Google. But one of the HTC spokesman said that Android is coming soon to India as it is a major market for mobile communications.

In India, mobile communications technology is one of the main revenue making industries. Players like TATA & Reliance are shifting their focus platforms from CDMA to GSM.

Will India see Android by end of July 2009 ? The HTC India website has a wonderful presentation of the HTC Magic.

Does that mean HTC is readying Magic for India ?

Tata Tele Services who currently have their huge CDMA operations all over India, have branded Tata DOCOMO to be their GSM networks’ name. NTT DOCOMO holds a 26% share in Tata Tele Services.

The GSM operations are to be rolled out in the southern part of the country this month and further national expansions in the later stages.

Whoa what an amazing branding… Tata Docomo !