1. Number Portability

2. How NP works Customer wants to take number to new carrier Signs contract to new carrier Sents cancellation to old carrier New carrier applies for number porting Old carrier confirms number porting Confirmation performance checked by regulator Porting information is distributed to all carriers

3. NP Process Participants Network Providers Incumbent Other Service Providers Customers Regulator

4. NP Solution Fixed Networks Service Number Mobile Networks Voice over IP

5. NP Technological Process Network BillingCRM NP carrier

6. NP Solution - distributed C1C2 C3 C4 C5 C6

7. NP Solution - centralised C1C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 MRD

8. Arcor Solution

9. Example Germany Same Problem – Many Solutions Mobile NP - Central Application OK Local NP – Distributed Solution Bad Service NP – Central Application OK Voice over IP NP No

10. NP Solution for Slovakia One Solution for FNNP,MNP,Voice/IP Central Application Paid by carriers /proportional by assigned number/ Central database run by local company Advantages : Same rules for everybody Automatic checking High reliability Lower investment per carrier Slovakia will be ahead of other countries with a working unified Number portability solution

11. Mincom/Telogic NP Services NP Concept Elaboration Process description Duties of all parties / operators, regulator/ Key values specifications /conf.time,port. price/ High level requirement specifications for operators´ customers´,regulators´ interface to MRD Option to finance NP infrastructure Option to ownership NP infrastructure

12. Mincom /Telogic NP Services Technical projects : Understanding and agreement to rules and interfaces Agreement among operators NP MRDB detailed specification Introduction of NP Infrastructure Mediation Devices specification NP influences on network, billing,CRM

13. Mincom /Telogic NP Services NP Execution MRDB,MD, development, NP Implementation in Billing, Network operation NP infrastructure implementation, introduction Operation, Administration, Maintanance

14. References from Germany 2000 Representative of carrier and SW house in regulatory working group of UAK AKNN 2002-3 Leading role in multi-carrier group identifying MNP to FN networks and regulator 2001-2 Specifications of the mobile portability database application for Germany 2002 Specifications and implementation of client database to MNP central database which feeds a carriers networks and billing operations. 2003 Specification of high availability version of client database Other : T-mobile Austria, T-mobile Czech, Regulator Turkey