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More Than 500,000 Ported Numbers as of Mid-May 2011
Data: 5/19/2011
2 and a half years from the introduction of number portability in Romania, the amount of ported numbers exceeded 500,000. The disparity between the fixed and the mobile ported numbers is relatively the same, 68% (i.e. more than 340,000 numbers) of the total ported numbers being mobile numbers.
The amount of ported numbers has grown steadily since the introduction of number portability service, on 21 October 2008. Thus, more than 15,000 numbers were ported in the remaining two months of 2008 since number portability has become available, more than 180,000 numbers were ported in 2009, whereas, in 2010, the amount of ported numbers rose to 221,219. In 2010, the monthly average amount of ported numbers reached 18,434 and most telephone numbers (25,331) were ported in December 2010. The total amount of ported numbers reached 417,139 as of 31 December 2010.
On 16 May 2011, the amount of ported numbers exceeded the 500,000 threshold. As of this date, 500,224 numbers were ported, 340,047 of which were mobile telephone numbers and 160,177 were fixed telephone numbers. As well, 83,085 telephone numbers have been ported from the beginning of 2011 until now. Out of these, 60,824 were mobile telephone numbers and 22,261 were fixed telephone numbers (this means, on average, more than 18,000 numbers ported per month).Most fixed telephone numbers were ported in Bucharest (44,635), followed by the counties of Cluj (10,785), Timis (10,756) and Prahova (8,568).
In the mobile telephony field, the statistical data show that postpaid users port their numbers more frequently as opposed to prepaid users. Thus, out of the total mobile telephony users who ported their numbers, 73% were postpaid users and only 27% were prepaid users.
As regards the amount of numbers ported by each mobile telephony operator in their capacity as acceptor providers (numbers ported into the providers’ own networks), the 340,047 ported mobile telephony numbers are divided as follows: Cosmote ported 126,671 numbers, Vodafone – 107,041, Orange – 101,973, RCS & RDS – 3,645 and Telemobil – 717.
The 160,177 fixed telephone numbers were ported into the networks of 31 fixed telephony providers. More precisely, most telephone numbers (54,395) were ported into the network of UPC Romania, followed by RCS & RDS – 38,995, Orange – 27,000, Vodafone – 21,606 and Romtelecom – 10,599.
Number portability enables the telephony users to keep their telephone numbers when they change their provider. Fixed, mobile and Premium Rate numbers (i.e. in the 0800 or 0900 range) may be ported. The porting is possible only within the same category (fixed-fixed, mobile-mobile). The service has been available in Romania since 21 October 2008.
Starting the first semester of 2010, ANCOM publishes statistical data on number portability in the Half-yearly reports on the electronic communications market, available on the ANCOM website.
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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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