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More than 440,000 numbers ported in the first half of 2016
Data: 7/12/2016
12.07.2016 Between the launch of number portability and the end of H1 2016, 3,057,298 telephone numbers switched operators while keeping their user, 440,748 numbers being ported in the first half of this year. In the first six months of 2016, the average number of porting processes exceeded 73,000, above last year’s similar level (70,000). Mobile telephony 80% of the total amount of numbers ported so far (2,442,911) are mobile telephony numbers. RCS & RDS was chosen by most of the users willing to port their numbers, thus gaining 759,373 users. RCS & RDS was followed by Vodafone, with 635,256 numbers accepted on their network, Orange – 585,692 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 428,509 and Telekom Romania Communications, with 33,281 mobile telephony numbers ported onto their network. In the first half of 2016, 415,377 mobile telephony numbers were ported, almost half of which (197,382) onto RCS & RDS’s network, whereas Orange attracted 88,501 ported numbers, followed by Vodafone – 83,336 numbers -, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 33,600 – and Telekom Romania Communications – 12,538 ported numbers. Further details on the evolution of the amount of ported numbers acquired by the providers of mobile telephony services are available on www.portabilitate.ro. Fixed telephony Concerning fixed telephony numbers, 25 providers accepted the 614,387 numbers ported from the launch of number portability until 30 June 2016. Among these, most of the numbers were ported to RCS & RDS – 164,821, Vodafone – 148,163, UPC România – 130,534, Orange – 114,828 and Telekom Romania Communications – 24,326. Depending on the residence area, most fixed telephony numbers were ported in Bucuresti – 185,560, followed by the county of Cluj – 35,684 ported numbers, county of Timis – 30,103, Prahova – 28,387 and Galati – 24,306. In the first six months of 2016, 25,371 fixed number porting requests were completed. 10,516 of these were ported onto RCS & RDS’s network, 6,368 to that of UPC România, Vodafone acquired 3,018 numbers, Orange – 2,857 and Telekom Romania Communications – 1,537. Further details on the monthly evolution of the amount of ported numbers acquired by the main providers of fixed telephony services are available on www.portabilitate.ro.
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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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