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10/21/2009 The First Year of Portability in Romania: 157,000 Ported Numbers
”On average, more than 13,000 telephony users per month have taken advantage of the number portability in the year that has passed since it became available in Romania. I believe that even more users make use of number portability in order to renegotiate their contracts and this reflects in more competition and lower prices for telephone services,” the ANCOM President, Mr. Catalin Marinescu, declared today, one year after ANCOM launched number portability in Romania.
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6/30/2009
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2/11/2009 31,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Three Months
“While 7,000 numbers were ported, on average, per month, in the first two months since the launch of number portability in Romania, once with the extension of the ceiling of ported numbers per day, more than 15,000 new ported numbers were registered in the third month. Thus, the total number of ported numbers reached 31,514, at the beginning of February”, Liviu Nistoran, the ANC President, declared.More than 26,000 of the ported telephone numbers are mobile numbers, whereas more than 5,000 are f...
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1/6/2009 More than 15,000 Telephone Numbers Ported in Two Months
In the first two months since the launch of number portability, almost 25,000 porting requests have been submitted - over 21,000 for mobile numbers and over 3,000 for fixed numbers.
Speaking of fixed telephony, 1,694 numbers have been ported so far, by the following operators: Atlas Telecom – 1, Dial Telecom – 26, Euroweb – 5, GTS – 7, RCS&RDS – 403, Romtelecom – 210, Telemobil – 62, UPC – 425, Vodafone – 555.
Regarding mobile telephony, approximat...
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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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