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ANC announces the porting of the first number
Data: 10/30/2008
Today, October 30, 2008, the president of the National Authority for Communications, Liviu Nistoran, has announced, during a press conference, the porting of the first telephone number in Romania.
„I am pleased to announce you that yesterday, October 29, 2008, at 16.34 hours, the first telephone number was successfully ported into the mobile telephone network. I understand that the person who was the first to change his (her) provider, by porting his (her) number, is very satisfied by his (her) choice and by the easiness and quickness with which the porting process was performed. I hope that all the users who choose to make use of this facility will be as satisfied as the person that first ported his (her) number”, Liviu Nistoran declared.Until today, October 30, 2008, 2,841 porting requests were registered by the database, out of which 2,769 for mobile telephony and 72 for fixed telephony. Since October 21, the day when number portability was implemented in Romania, the number of porting requests has doubled from one day to another.
During this morning, October 30, 14 mobile telephony numbers have been successfully ported to different mobile telephony networks. Some of these numbers have already been activated and are now operational in the acceptor provider’s network, while others are under the activation procedure.
Since the launch of www.portabilitate.ro, this website that provides information on the porting process registers, on the average, 2000 users a day, with a record of 2700 users on October 28.
”The success of number portability should not be measured by the number of ported numbers; it should be assessed based on the operator’s diligence to keep their customers, on their effort to devise more advantageous offers and to provide better quality services, at lower tariffs. We wish that number portability contribute to enhanced competition in the market, and that the number of ported numbers reflect the users’ attraction towards better, lower-priced offers, rather than their discontent with a certain provider,” Liviu Nistoran highlighted.
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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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