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More than 3,000,000 mobile numbers ported in Romania
Data: 2/9/2017
More than 3,000,000 mobile numbers ported in Romania
 Since 2008, when number portability was launched in Romania, more than 3.66 million users have benefited from this service, i.e. 3 million mobile telephony users and approximately 654 thousand fixed telephony users. More than a quarter of all the numbers were ported only in 2016, when 939,663 users switched operators while keeping their telephone number. The monthly average number of porting processes corresponding to 2016 kept growing - from 70,373, on average, in 2015, to 78,305 in 2016. December and November 2016 were the months with the highest number of porting processes – 110,587 in December and91,838 in November. Mobile telephony 82% (3,010,150) of the total number of porting processes performed so far are mobile telephony numbers. RCS & RDS is the provider that received most ported numbers on its network – 1,058,527 – followed by Vodafone – 743,592 numbers, Orange – 696,746, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 465,914 and Telekom Romania Communications – 44,556 ported mobile telephony numbers. In 2016, mobile telephony providers attracted 879,330 users through porting processes, respectively 94% of all the users who ported their numbers on 2016. Most of these chose RCS & RDS – 434,816, whereas Orange received 182,948 ported users, Vodafone – 175,296, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 63,916, and Telekom Romania Communications – 22,320.  Fixed telephony As for the fixed telephony, 25 providers received the 654,572 numbers ported since the launch of number portability. Most of these were ported to RCS & RDS – 179,125, Vodafone – 151,532, UPC Romania – 134,636, Orange – 128,115 and Telekom Romania Communications – 25,500. Depending on residence area, most fixed telephony users who ported their numbers are from Bucharest – 197,909, the Capital being followed by the counties of Cluj – 37,532 ported numbers, Timiș – 32,219, Prahova – 29,414 and Galați – 24,942. In 2016, the users ported half of the 2015 amount of fixed telephony numbers. Most of the 60,333fixed telephony numbers ported in 2016 went to the largest providers, thus: RCS & RDS – 22,084, Orange – 15,117, UPC Romania – 9,905, Vodafone – 5,721 and Telekom Romania Communications – 2,613.  About number portability Number portability gives full freedom of choice to telephony users as it enables them to keep their telephone number, while switching providers. ANCOM makes available to the users the website www.portabilitate.ro, where they can find the network of any ported telephone number used in Romania. The website offers details on the steps to be taken in order to port a telephone number, answers to frequently asked questions in case of porting a number, as well as advice for preventing possible problems in the porting process. Advice is provided based on the factual situations encountered by the users and presented to the Authority. The persons interested in learning more information on this topic may access the ANCOM webpage or the www.portabilitate.rowebsite. To be reassured that they are making the best-informed choice when they decide to change their provider, the users may visit www.veritel.ro, the offer comparison tool administered by the Romanian regulatory authority which enables them to compare all the offers of the telephony and internet operators available in the market. |
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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