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10/21/2015 More than 2,300,000 Numbers Ported in Seven Years
In the 7 years since the launch of number portability, 2,327,058 telephone numbers changed operators, without changing users. 1,798,488 of these are mobile telephony numbers and 528,570 are fixed telephony numbers. Since 21 October 2008, when the service was launched in Romania, the number of users that chose to port their telephone number has been on a constant rise. The amount of numbers ported each year since the launch of number portability is presented in the table below: 2008 (21 October – 31 Dece...
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2/12/2015 More than Half a Million Ported Numbers in 2014
Last year, 564,648 numbers were ported in Romania, standing for one third of the total 1,772,073 of numbers ported between the service launch and the end of 2014. Out of the 564,648 ported numbers, 479,938 are mobile and 84,710 are fixed telephone numbers. Since the launch of this service in Romania, 1,304,091 mobile telephony users and 467,982 fixed telephony users have made use of it. The monthly average of ported numbers doubled in 2014 as compared to 2013, to 47,054 from 22,844. The most numerous teleph...
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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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