What are some of the important details to take note of for prepaid porting?
• To better address the needs of mobile prepaid subscribers, the industry has decided not to validate that the person holding a prepaid card is the same person who originally registered that prepaid card, as part of Full Mobile Number Portability. Hence, if you lose your prepaid card, it will be possible for another person who finds that card to port the card to another mobile service provider. Therefore, you are advised • to keep your prepaid cards secure at all times (and treat prepaid cards as they would treat other valuables, such as cash-cards, payphone cards, and cash); and • in the event that the prepaid card is stolen or lost, you should inform your mobile service provider immediately to suspend or terminate the prepaid number, to prevent unauthorised usage or porting of the number (if the latter has not already occurred). • For mobile phone users on a prepaid service, you will lose any prepaid card balance you have with your previous mobile service provider after you have port
