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10/19/2012 Four Years of Portability in Romania
Four Years of Portability in RomaniaFour years after the
introduction of number portability in Romania, the amount of ported
numbers reached 873,213. This amount has risen every year: 30% of the amount of
ported numbers so far was achieved in 2011, 25% in 2010 and 21% in 2009.
The amount of ported numbers has grown steadily since
the introduction of the portability service on 21 October 2008. Thus, 15,681
numbers were ported in the last three months of 2008, 180,239 numbers were
ported in 200...
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9/3/2012 Starting today, a telephone number can be ported in 3 days
ANCOM’s decision amending the technical and commercial conditions related to telephone number porting entered into force on 2 September. From this date on, the ported number will become active in the new network in maximum one working day, in line with the European rules, and the maximum duration of the porting-related administrative procedures is reduced from 10 to 3 working days.
The decision reduces the timelines in which the providers have the obligation to carry out the specific activities associated...
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4/4/2012 ANCOM agreed with the industry the conditions for the reduction of the porting term
During today’s meeting of the Consultative Council, ANCOM has finalised the debate on the decision amending the technical and commercial conditions related to telephone number porting. Thus, according to the new decision, the ported number will become active in the new network in maximum one working day, in line with the European rules, and the maximum duration of the porting-related administrative procedures is reduced from 10 to 3 working days.
The decision reduces the timelines in which the provid...
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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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