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Over 1,400,000 Ported Numbers in Romania
Data: 7/15/2014
In the first
half of 2014, Romanian users ported 202,778 telephone numbers, thus exceeding
the milestone of 1,400,000 ported numbers. According to the ANCOM statistics,
mobile telephony users port their numbers most frequently, i.e. 70% of the
1,410,203 numbers ported since the launch of the portability service are mobile
telephony numbers. For the first half of 2014, most numbers were ported in June
(44,658), whereas the average monthly porting rate was 33,796 numbers.
In the
mobile telephony segment, ANCOM’s statistical data indicate that
subscription-based users port their numbers more frequently than prepaid card
users. Thus, out of the total number of mobile telephony users who ported their
numbers in the first half of 2014, 62% were subscription-based and 38% were
prepaid card users. As for the mobile telephone numbers received on each
acceptor provider’s network, the 161,441 such numbers ported during
January-June 2014 went to: Vodafone – 44,498, Orange – 43,856, RCS & RDS –
37,285, and Cosmote – 35,802.
In the first
half of 2014, most fixed telephony numbers were ported in Bucharest and Ilfov
(10,379), then in Galați (5,199), Prahova (1,917), Cluj (1,792) and Timiș
(1,527). Most of the 41,337 fixed telephony numbers ported went to the
following networks: Orange (16,114), RCS & RDS (9,843), UPC România
(8,757), Vodafone (3,645) and Romtelecom (1,420).
From the
beginning of the year, ANCOM has received 84 complaints on number portability,
i.e. 12% of all the complaints registered in this interval. Generally, the
users complain about the technical issues occurred during the porting process
and about the porting terms.
Before
initiating the porting process ANCOM recommends the users to visit www.portabilitate.ro, a website
created and administered by the Authority. The website provides details
regarding the steps to be taken in order to benefit from this service, answers
to the most frequent questions on the porting, as well as a few pieces of
advice for avoiding all sorts of problems which might occur during the porting
process. The advice answers to actual situations brought by the users to
ANCOM’s attention. Moreover, here the interested parties can find the network
of any telephone number in Romania, irrespective of whether it has been ported
or not.
To ensure
that they make the best choice when switching providers, the users may access www.veritel.ro, the online
application for comparing telecom offers administered by the Authority that
allows for comparing all the offers of the telephony and internet providers
available on the market.
Number
portability enables telephony users to keep their numbers, while shifting to
another telephone service provider. Both fixed and mobile telephone numbers, as
well as special numbers such as those in the 0800 or 0900 category can be
ported. Porting is possible exclusively within one category (fixed-to-fixed,
mobile-to-mobile). Usually, the porting process cannot take longer than 3
working days from the date of registering a request (except for situations
where the users request a later porting deadline), whereas - on the porting day
– the service may be unavailable maximum 3 hours for mobile telephony and
maximum 4 hours for fixed telephony.
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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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