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Over 2,000,000 Mobile Telephony Numbers Ported in Romania
Data: 2/9/2016
By the end of 2015, 2,027,534 mobile telephony numbers had been ported, i.e. 77% of the total of 2,616,550 numbers ported in Romania. The rest, 589,016, are ported fixed numbers. Out of all the 2,616,550 numbers ported in Romania, 844,477 have been ported in 2015 only, the volume of ported numbers being on a constant rise in the recent years, also due to the fact that the Authority took steps in order to increase the database’s capacity of processing the requests of. Moreover, the monthly average in 2015 witnessed an upsurge, to 70,373 porting processes, compared to 47,054 in 2014 and 22,844 in 2013.
In 2015, mobile telephony providers gained 723,443 users through porting. Among these, almost half chose RCS & RDS – 348,328, whereas Vodafone received on their network 153,772 new users, Orange – 128,160, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications – 76,676, and Telekom Romania Communications – 16,459. One can remark that, again, mobile telephony subscribers are more inclined to benefit from number portability, 52% of those who port their number being subscription-based users and 48% - prepaid card users. Most of the 121,034 fixed telephony numbers ported in 2015 were shared among the main providers, as follows: Vodafone – 63,983, RCS & RDS – 23,369, UPC Romania – 12,791, Orange – 11,062 and Telekom Romania Communications – 2,404. The ranking of providers, by the total amount of mobile and fixed telephone numbers ported onto their networks, from the launch of number portability until 31 December 2015, is presented in the tables below: Provider | Ported mobile telephony numbers | RCS & RDS | 561,991 | Vodafone | 551,920 | Orange | 497,191 | Telekom Romania Mobile Communications | 394,909 | Telekom Romania Communications | 20,743 |
Provider | Ported fixed telephony numbers | RCS & RDS | 154,305 | Vodafone | 145,145 | UPC Romania | 124,166 | Orange | 111,971 | Telekom Romania Communications | 22,789 |
Number portability gives full freedom of choice to telephony users as it enables them to keep their telephone number, while changing the telephony provider. ANCOM makes available to the users the website www.portabilitate.ro, where they can find the network of any telephone 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. Advice is provided based on the factual situations encountered by the users and presented to ANCOM. The persons interested in learning more information on this topic may access the ANCOM webpage or the www.portabilitate.rowebsite. To be reassured that they are making the best-informed choice when they decide to change their provider, the users may visit www.veritel.ro, the offer comparison tool administered by the Romanian regulatory authority which enables them to compare all the available offers of the telephony and internet operators.
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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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