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10/30/2008 ANC announces the porting of the first number
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) choic...
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10/21/2008 Green Light to Requests for Porting Fixed or Mobile Telephone Numbers
Today, fixed and mobile number portability has been launched in Romania. ”Whoever wishes to keep his/her telephone number, but, nevertheless, switch telephony providers, can now go to chosen operator and submit a porting request. Within 10 days, his/her number will be operational in the new network”, Mr. Liviu Nistoran, the ANC President, declared during the international conference entitled ”Regulating Electronic Communications - Putting the End User First”. The ANC President a esti...
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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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