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More than 1.2 Million Numbers Ported in Romania
Data: 2/10/2014
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 their telephone number while changing the telephony provider.
Since
the launch of this service in Romania, on 21 October 2008, more and more
Romanians switched operators, while keeping their number: in 2008 there were
15,681 ported numbers, in 2009 – 180,239, in 2010 – 221,219, in 2011 they kept
the upward trend, to 260,256, in 2012 there were 255,893, while 2013 was a peak
in the trend of ported numbers, up to 274,137.
Out
of the total of 1,207,425 numbers ported by 31 October 2013, 824,153
- i.e. 68% - are mobile
telephone numbers. The statistical data reveal that subscription users are the
most interested (approximately 80% of the total) in keeping their telephone
number, whereas 20% of those who chose to change their provider use prepaid cards.
In the mobile telephony segment, Vodafone is again the network to which the
most numbers were ported, i.e. 288,424, followed by Orange, with 270,652
numbers, Cosmote, with 254,646 numbers, RCS & RDS, with 8,299 numbers and
Romtelecom, with 1,400 mobile telephone numbers.
In
the case of fixed telephony, 35 providers received the 383,272 numbers ported so far. Most of these were ported to RCS &
RDS – 106,552, UPC Romania – 94,541, Orange – 75,163, Vodafone – 71,116 and
Romtelecom – 15,666. The largest number of porting requests for fixed telephone
numbers was registered in Bucharest (118,105 numbers), followed by the county
of Cluj – 26,052 ported numbers, Timis (21,761), Prahova (18,687) and Galati
(15,217), i.e. more than 50% of the total amount of fixed telephony numbers
ported.
The
year 2013 featured both the highest monthly average amount of ported numbers –
22,844, and the month with the highest amount of ported numbers – 35,532, i.e.
December 2013. Throughout the five years of number portability, in Romania
there were on average 15,020 ported numbers per month in 2009, 18,435 in 2010,
21,688 in 2011, 21,324 in 2012 and 22,844 in 2013.
The
internet users may visit for information www.portabilitate.ro, where they can find the network of any
telephony number used in Romania, ported or not. The website offers details on
the steps to be taken in order to port a telephone number, answers to
frequently asked questions in case of porting a number, as well as advice for
preventing possible problems in the porting process. The advice is provided
based on the factual situations encountered by the users and submitted to
ANCOM. This year, ANCOM received 95 complaints from the users regarding the
porting process, the main problems submitted being related to technical aspects
occurred during the porting process and to the porting deadlines.
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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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