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More than 3,000,000 numbers ported
Data: 6/9/2016
In the first five months of 2016, more than 370,000 numbers have been ported, which means that the total amount of ported numbers since the launch of number portability in Romania, until the 7th of June, exceeded 3 million numbers. Out of the total of 370,338 numbers ported so far in 2016, 94% (348,457) were mobile telephony numbers and only 21,881 were fixed telephony numbers. Among the first five months of the current year, January and March marked the peak of the porting trend, with 79,024, respectively 78,056 ported numbers.
Mobile telephony Almost half of the users that ported their mobile telephone number in the first 5 months of 2016 chose RCS & RDS, which thus gained 166,062 users. RCS & RDS was followed by Orange Romania, with 74,554 numbers accepted on their network, Vodafone Romania – 67,998, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 29,201 and Telekom Romania Communications, with 10,623 numbers ported onto their network. Fixed telephony Most of the 21,881 fixed telephony numbers ported in the first five months of 2016 were taken over by the main providers as follows: RCS & RDS – 8,930, UPC Romania – 5,675, Vodafone – 2,629, Orange – 2,550 and Telekom Romania Communications – 1,348. About number portability Number portability gives full freedom of choice to telephony users as it enables them to keep their telephone number, while switching providers. ANCOM makes available to the users the website www.portabilitate.ro, where they can find the network of any telephone number used in Romania, either ported or not. The website offers details on the steps to be taken in order to port a telephone number, answers to frequently asked questions in case of porting a number, as well as advice for preventing possible problems in the porting process. Advice is provided based on the factual situations encountered by the users and presented to the Authority. The persons interested in learning more information on this topic may access the ANCOM webpage or the www.portabilitate.ro website. To be reassured that they are making the best-informed choice when they decide to change their provider, the users may visit www.veritel.ro, the offer comparison tool administered by the Romanian regulatory authority which enables them to compare all the offers of the telephony and internet operators available in the market.
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Do you wish to port your number? Here are 10 tips you must know:1. Find out about all the providers’ offers and choose the one that suits your best.2. Carefully read your contract with the current provider, looking for termination clauses or for special interruption provisions.3. If you use a prepaid card, the remaining credit cannot be transferred.4. Fill in the standard porting request, which is available either here, or at one of the acceptor provider’s offices.5. Fill in the porting request carefully. If you do not provide full and accurate details, the system will reject it.6. S...
1. Can I port my telephone number within the same network?
No. Portability enables you precisely to change the network, while sticking to your telephone number. Portability allows a number to “leave” the initial network and to be used by the same user in another network.
If you do not wish to change the network, but change the contractual clauses, you need to discuss it with your service provider and negotiate the terms that suit you best.
2. If I change the network, do I keep the current “prefix” of my telephone number?
When ported, the 10-digit telephone number remains unc...
The launch of number portability has made network identification based on the number format impossible. Therefore, to avoid situations in which the users could unawares pay a different tariff than the one they know, each call to a number that used to be in the origination network of that call, but was subsequently ported, is preceded by a beep sound.
This beep sound allows the caller to end the call, find to which network the number has been ported and whether the tariff of a call to that number is different from the known one.
Some users are not aware of this sound signal that mak...
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