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More than 2,300,000 Numbers Ported in Seven Years
Data: 10/21/2015
In the 7 years since the launch of number portability, 2,327,058 telephone numbers changed operators, without changing users. 1,798,488 of these are mobile telephony numbers and 528,570 are fixed telephony numbers. Since 21 October 2008, when the service was launched in Romania, the number of users that chose to port their telephone number has been on a constant rise. The amount of numbers ported each year since the launch of number portability is presented in the table below: | 2008 (21 October – 31 December) | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 (1 January – 16 October) | | 15,681 | 180,239 | 221,219 | 260,256 | 255,893 | 274,137 | 564,648 | 554,985 | 77% (1,798,488) of all the numbers ported during October 2008 – October 2015 are mobile telephony numbers. In the mobile telephony segment, Vodafone kept receiving the most ported numbers - 509,318, followed by Orange - 452,551 numbers, RCS & RDS - 447,209 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications - 373,669 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications - 14,975 ported mobile telephony numbers. As regards the fixed telephony, 38 providers received the 528.570 ported numbers. Out of these, the most numbers were ported to RCS & RDS – 149,941, UPC România – 121,612, Orange – 110,299, Vodafone – 95,028 and Telekom Romania Communications – 21,864. According to the place of residence, the largest number of users who ported their fixed telephony numbers was registered in Bucharest – 164,910, county Cluj – 32,689 county Timiş – 26,471, county Prahova – 25,704 and county Galaţi – 22,542 ported numbers, which together stand for more than 50% of the total ported fixed telephone numbers. The statistics corresponding to 2015 show that number portability registers an accelerated growing trend. Thus, from January to October 2015, 554,985 numbers were ported, as compared to 564,648 numbers ported throughout 2014. The monthly average of ported numbers corresponding to the first 9 months of 2015 is 58,650 as compared to 47,054 in 2014 and 22,844 in 2013. More than 89% of the numbers ported between 1st of January 2015 and 16th of October 2015 are mobile telephony numbers i.e. 494,397. Out of these, almost 50% were ported in the RCS & RDS network – 233,546, while Vodafone received 111,170 new ported users, Orange – 83,520, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 55,436, and Telekom Romania Communications – 10,691. Most of the 60,588 fixed telephony numbers ported in 2015, until October 16th, were distributed among the main providers as shown below: RCS & RDS – 18,780, Vodafone – 13,866, UPC România – 10,235, Orange – 9,390 and Telekom Romania Communications – 1,474. The portability offers telephony users full freedom of choice, since it allows to keep the telephone number while changing the telephony provider. ANCOM makes available, for information, the www.portabilitate.ro website, where users can find out the network to which any telephone number used in Romania belongs, including when it has been ported. The website also offers details concerning the steps that need to be taken in order to benefit from such service, answers to frequently asked questions in relation to porting, and also a few pieces of advice to avoid possible problems that might occur during the porting. The pieces of advice are based on real situations, brought to the Authority’s attention by users. The persons interested in learning further information on this issue may access the ANCOM website or the www.portabilitate.ro website. In order to be convinced that they make the best and most informed choice when changing the services provider, the users may access www.veritel.ro, the online application for comparing telecom offers managed by the regulatory Authority, which allows for a comparison of all the public offers of all telephony and Internet providers.
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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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