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More than 15,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Two Months
Data: 1/6/2009
In the first two months since the launch of number portability, almost 25,000 porting requests have been submitted - over 21,000 for mobile numbers and over 3,000 for fixed numbers.
Speaking of fixed telephony, 1,694 numbers have been ported so far, by the following operators: Atlas Telecom – 1, Dial Telecom – 26, Euroweb – 5, GTS – 7, RCS&RDS – 403, Romtelecom – 210, Telemobil – 62, UPC – 425, Vodafone – 555.
Regarding mobile telephony, approximately 14,000 numbers have been ported by: Cosmote – 5,960, Orange – 4,167, RCS&RDS – 38, Telemobil – 41, Vodafone – 3,778.”As anticipated, mobile numbers are most ported. The number of requests, as well as the number of ported numbers, meet our estimates. So far, an operator was allowed to port no more than 300 numbers a day. Today, we will start extending this ceiling, gradually, as required by the number of porting requests”, the ANC President, Mr. Liviu Nistoran, declared.
The ANC President emphasized that the porting procedure is a complex one. The administrative processes involved by the implementation of number portability consist of several stages, each of which can raise various technical problems. Sometimes, certain technical problems may block an activated porting process, therefore the porting must be resumed from the initial stage, by re-entering the porting request into the database. The President highlighted that the Authority permanently monitors the porting processes by means of the central database and takes steps, based on regular analyses, in order to identify and solve the occurring problems and to prevent similar occurrences. ”Thus, we managed to keep down the number of incidents and to rapidly remove the causes of disruption from the porting processes”, Mr. Liviu Nistoran added.
Number portability is a service that offers the telephony subscribers the possibility to keep their telephone numbers when they switch providers. Portability is available for fixed or mobile telephony numbers, as well as for special numbers such as 0800- or 0900- numbers, but only within the same category (fixed-to-fixed or mobile-to-mobile). This service has been launched in Romania on 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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