In May 1998, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) received the final report (the Final Consultancy Report) from the Consultants, National Economic Research Associates (NERA) and the Smith System Engineering (Smith), commissioned by OFTA on a study of the & Feasibility Study and Cost-benefit Analysis of Number Portability for Mobile Services in Hong Kong". The Executive Summary of the Final Consultancy Report is attached as Annex 3 to this Statement. The study has concluded that the introduction of number portability for public mobile services would promote fair competition and create net benefits of HK$461 million in net present value terms over ten years. Based on the views and comments of the industry, the Consultants' findings and recommendations in the Final Consultancy Report, the Telecommunications Authority (TA) sets out his considered views and policy intention in this Statement on the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Hong Kong and the implementation plan of MNP by a distributed database solution with Fixed Telecommunication Network Services (FTNS) operators providing the "look-up" services by the earliest target date. The TA considers 1 January 1999 is the earliest target date that can be achieved..

2. Any enquiries on this Statement should be addressed to the TA in writing to the following address:-

Office of the Telecommunications Authority

29/F, Wu Chung House,
213, Queen's Road East,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong
[Attn: Senior Telecommunications Engineer (Technical Support 2)
Telephone no. 2961 6611
Fax no. 2803 5112]

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3. This TA's Statement and Final Consultancy Report are available for download as below -

Title	Version	Document Size	File Format	Download
TA's Statement	English	39 Pages, 154 KB	PDF	Click here
Final Consultancy Report	English	193 Pages, 862 KB	PDF	Click here
	English	193 Pages, 373 KB	MSWord 8.0 Zip	Click here