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10/20/2011 Three Years of Portability – 600,000 Numbers Kept by The Users Irrespective of the Network They Chose
Three years from the introduction of number portability in Romania, the amount of ported numbers exceeds 600,000. The disparity between the fixed and the mobile ported numbers remains relatively the same, 67% (i.e. more than 411,000 numbers) of the total ported numbers being mobile numbers.
The amount of ported numbers has grown steadily since the introduction of number portability service on 21 October 2008. Thus, more than 15,000 numbers were ported in the remaining two months of 2008, more than 180,000 ...
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5/19/2011 More Than 500,000 Ported Numbers as of Mid-May 2011
2 and a half years from the introduction of number portability in Romania, the amount of ported numbers exceeded 500,000. The disparity between the fixed and the mobile ported numbers is relatively the same, 68% (i.e. more than 340,000 numbers) of the total ported numbers being mobile numbers.
The amount of ported numbers has grown steadily since the introduction of number portability service, on 21 October 2008. Thus, more than 15,000 numbers were ported in the remaining two months of 2008 since number po...
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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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