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Green Light to Requests for Porting Fixed or Mobile Telephone Numbers
Data: 10/21/2008
Today, fixed and mobile number portability has been launched in Romania. ”Whoever wishes to keep his/her telephone number, but, nevertheless, switch telephony providers, can now go to chosen operator and submit a porting request. Within 10 days, his/her number will be operational in the new network”, Mr. Liviu Nistoran, the ANC President, declared during the international conference entitled ”Regulating Electronic Communications - Putting the End User First”. The ANC President a estimated that, in the first two years of number portability, approximately 20-25% of the mobile telephony numbers in Romania will be ported.
Number portability is a service designed for the telephony users who intend to keep their telephone number while changing the service provider. One can port fixed and mobile telephony numbers, Premium Rate numbers, as well as numbers in the 0800 or 0900 ranges. Porting is possible only within the same category of numbers (fixed-fixed, mobile-mobile).
The ANC President highlighted the main three benefits of number portability: freedom for the users, incentives for competition and lower tariffs. Number portability reduces the users’ reluctance to switching telephony providers and ensures greater freedom of choice for them, triggering the launch of better services and of more advantageous offers, and provides for narrowing the gap between ”on-net” and ”off-net” tariffs, in the long run.
On this occasion, ANC launched the website www.portabilitate.ro, where the users can find information on number portability and useful advice on the porting procedure, a search engine enabling them to see whether a telephone number has been ported and – if so – the network to which it has been ported.
Representatives of the European Commission, of other European NRAs and of the consumer groups attended this event.
Further details on this conference are available on the Authority’s website.
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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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