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10/10/2014 More than 1.5 Million Numbers Ported in Romania
Throughout the six years since the launch of number portability in Romania, the amount of telephone numbers transferred from their users from one network to another has constantly been on the rise. Thus, starting from 2008, when this service was launched, until the beginning of October 2014, 1,565,031 numbers were ported - of which, 1,122,559 mobile telephony numbers and 442,472 fixed telephony numbers. According to the ANCOM data, 2014 is the year when the most numbers – 357,606 – were ported. Therefore, o...
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7/15/2014 Over 1,400,000 Ported Numbers in Romania
In the first
half of 2014, Romanian users ported 202,778 telephone numbers, thus exceeding
the milestone of 1,400,000 ported numbers. According to the ANCOM statistics,
mobile telephony users port their numbers most frequently, i.e. 70% of the
1,410,203 numbers ported since the launch of the portability service are mobile
telephony numbers. For the first half of 2014, most numbers were ported in June
(44,658), whereas the average monthly porting rate was 33,796 numbers.
In the
mobile telepho...
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2/10/2014 More than 1.2 Million Numbers Ported in Romania
Until
end-2013, 1,207,425 numbers were ported in Romania, i.e. 824,153 mobile
telephone numbers and 383,272 fixed telephone numbers. 2013 was the year with
the largest amount of ported numbers – 274,137. This means that – on average –
22,844 numbers changed their network each month, but not their user. Since the
launch of this service, the most numerous - 35,532 numbers – were ported in
December 2013.
Number
portability offers full freedom of choice to telephony users, as it enables
them to keep ...
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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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