But I am finding otherwise. Their shops say numbers are not available. They say please go for mnp(so that other providers loose customers). How come they think that people will loose working number for non-dependable provider. Other providers numbers work at least. This is cheating method by Jio. Even after22 days, I am yet to get number SMS.
We have 10-digit mobile number, and first digit can only be 7, 8 or 9. That means only a total of 3 Billion numbers are possible in a best case scenario. And of this, several numbers are not "issued" because they clash with other numbers, or create other problems. If you look at it, only about 2 Billion numbers are there, in total.
We have 700+ million customers, plus, we have humongous amount of unsold Prepaid cards, where the numbers are already decided or fixed. I would estimate that every single store that sells Prepaid cards has at least 10-20 SIM cards minimum, and some have upwards of 100. And there are literally millions of these shops throughout India.
There are entire blocks of numbers that are blocked for some operators that don't have nearly as many customers.
And in Jio, we have a problem where almost every single customer of Jio is taking up additional number - not porting to Jio. So the numbers alloted to Jio run out very quickly - given the rate at which customers are migrating to Jio!
Unfortunately, Jio cannot solve this problem immediately. This is not a problem with Jio at all.
The only thing they can say, is to ask you to use MNP - that way number is retained. But as of now, you don't want to use MNP!
India will probably have to migrate to a 11 or 12 digit number very urgently, to meet Jio's requirements. And Jio will use this issue to force operators to allow MNP. Many people could shift secondary number to Jio.