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31,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Three Months
Data: 2/11/2009
“While 7,000 numbers were ported, on average, per month, in the first two months since the launch of number portability in Romania, once with the extension of the ceiling of ported numbers per day, more than 15,000 new ported numbers were registered in the third month. Thus, the total number of ported numbers reached 31,514, at the beginning of February”, Liviu Nistoran, the ANC President, declared.More than 26,000 of the ported telephone numbers are mobile numbers, whereas more than 5,000 are fixed telephone numbers.
As regards fixed telephony, compared to the last reported statistical data on number portability, the number of operators that received porting requests and ported numbers in their own network increased significantly. Thus, the 5,291 fixed telephone numbers were ported to the following operators: Atlas Telecom – 2, Dial Telecom – 243, Euroweb – 7, GTS – 73, Ines Group – 7, Iristel – 10, Media Sat – 3, Newcomm – 10, Orange – 103, RCS&RDS – 1,059, Romtelecom – 327, Telcor – 10, Telemobil – 66, UPC – 1,892 and Vodafone – 1,479.
As mobile telephony is concerned, following porting, all the 5 operators gained new subscribers: Cosmote – 11,707, Orange – 6,849, RCS&RDS – 128, Telemobil – 211, Vodafone – 7,328.
“The number of fixed telephony users who made use of their right to switch their provider, while keeping their telephone number, tripled during the last month and more and more fixed telephony operators are engaged in the portability process. Mobile telephony also keeps the growing trend, some of the operators doubling their subscriber basis in the first two months since the launch of number portability”, Liviu Nistoran added.
The ceiling of ported numbers per day was gradually extended, as required by the number of porting requests, therefore today each operator can port 500 numbers a day.
If a user initiates a call to a ported number, prior to completing the call, he/she will be warned by a distinctive tone that the called number was ported. Thus, he/she has the possibility to decide if he/she wishes to waive the respective call and get additional information. The users may learn such information from several sources: their telephony operator, by means of its Customer Service, or by accessing www.portabilitate.ro and using the application intended for locating the ported numbers.
Number portability enables the telephony users to keep their telephone number while changing the service provider. One can port fixed and mobile telephone numbers, Premium Rate numbers, as well as numbers in the 0800 or 0900 ranges. Porting is possible only within the same category of numbers (fixed-fixed, mobile-mobile). The service is available in Romania since 21 October 2008.
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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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