Mobile operators will set their equipment for the transition to eight digits Sunday. This is what makes between midnight and 5 am, Sunday 1 st September, the mobile network will be decommissioned. " There will be no mobile network in Mauritius for several hours. This will allow time for operators to switch to the eight-digit dialing , "confirmed Shyam Roy, Chief Executive Officer 's Emtel Ltd. , which yesterday unveiled Thursday, August 29, at a press conference, an application facilitating the conversion of numbers mobile.
Side of Mauritius Telecom , one foresees disturbances on the network Orange from 21 pm Saturday, and until 5:00 this Sunday. By cons, Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Limited proceed to tilt in just one hour, reassuring Rajesh Rai, spokesman for the company. The reason: the operator does not have a lot of subscribers unlike its competitors.
Given that the country will be without network for voice, SMS and mobile Internet, disruptions are expected. For example, if the alarms and surveillance cameras depend on the wireless network, they will not work during the transition. Indeed, security companies will also set up their equipment for the transition to eight digits.
Sms notifications from social networks will also be disrupted, Facebook calling a mobile number as a validation tool. It is unknown if Facebook was advised to add the prefix to the five existing seven digits.
The move to eight digits is also complicated for mobile applications such as Viber , Whatsappand Skype . These services are offered by international bodies and are therefore beyond the control of mobile operators. Notification to suppliers to the effect that the mobile numbers increase to eight digits is the responsibility of the regulatory authority, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority . Operators have already contacted it snaps to the procedures in this regard.