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10/11/2013 5 Years of Portability in Romania
This year marks 5 years since telephone
number portability has become available in Romania. In these five years an
amount of 1,125,959 numbers have been ported, meaning that 759,273 mobile
telephone numbers and 366,686 fixed telephone numbers have changed their
network but not their holders.
The portability removed an important
barrier to the telephony users’ freedom of choice, enabling them to keep their
telephone number even when they choose to change their network. Since the
introduction of the...
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10/9/2013 Veritel.ro Allows Comparing Among More Than 3.5 Million Offers of Fixed and Mobile Telephony and Internet
The visitors of the
Internet & Mobile World 2013 event, taking place between 9 and 10 October
at Romexpo, have the opportunity to make comparisons among more than 3.5
million offers of fixed and mobile telephony and broadband Internet available
on the online application for comparing the telecom offers developed by ANCOM –
Veritel.ro.
On www.veritel.ro the users may find the most advantageous
offers for them in three simple steps: they choose the category of services,
insert their consumption...
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4/4/2013 One Million Ported Numbers
At the
beginning of April 2013, Romania reached the threshold of one million ported
numbers. Since the introduction of the service allowing the users to keep their
telephone number when changing their provider, i.e. on 21 October 2008, the
amount of ported numbers has risen every year. 671,095 of the 1,001,364 of
numbers ported as of 1 April 2013 were mobile telephone numbers and 330,269
fixed telephone numbers.
The
evolution of the amount of ported numbers did not see spectacular shifts over
tim...
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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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