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More than 800,000 Ported Numbers

02.08.2012
 
Since the introduction of number portability on 21 October 2008 and until now, the amount of ported numbers has exceeded 800,000. The disparity between the fixed and the mobile ported numbers remains relatively the same, 68% of the total ported numbers, namely more than 550,000, being mobile telephone numbers. An amount of 813,582 telephone numbers were ported until 31 July 2012, of which 553,154 mobile numbers and 260,428 fixed numbers.
15,681 numbers were ported in the remaining two months of 2008 since number portability has become available, 180,239 numbers were ported in 2009, 221,219 in 2010, and 260,256 in 2011. The largest amount of numbers (34,696) was ported in December 2011.  
A total amount of 136,187 numbers were ported from the beginning of 2012 and until now, 96,820 mobile numbers and 39,367 fixed telephone numbers (a monthly average amount of 19,455 ported numbers). This year, the largest amount of numbers was ported in January (27,823 numbers).
Most fixed telephone numbers were ported in Bucharest (76,663 numbers), followed by Cluj county, with 19,008 ported numbers, Timis (14,740) and Prahova (14,370).
As for mobile telephony, the statistical data show that postpaid users port their numbers more frequently as opposed to prepaid users. Thus, out of the total mobile telephony users who ported their numbers, 75% were postpaid users and 25% were prepaid users.
As regards the amount of numbers ported by each mobile telephony operator in their capacity as acceptor providers (numbers ported into the providers’ own networks), the 553,154 ported mobile telephony numbers are divided as follows: Vodafone ported 186,793 numbers, Cosmote 184,775, Orange 175,607, RCS & RDS 5,255 and Telemobil 719.
The 260,428 fixed telephone numbers were ported into the networks of 31 fixed telephony providers. More precisely, most telephone numbers were ported into the network of UPC Romania (72,843), RCS & RDS (69,649), Orange (48,869), Vodafone (44,735) and Romtelecom (12,061).
Number portability enables the telephony users to keep their telephone numbers when they change their provider. Fixed, mobile and Premium Rate numbers (i.e. in the 0800 or 0900 range) may be ported. The porting is possible only within the same category (fixed-fixed, mobile-mobile).
According to a decision adopted by ANCOM in the first half of this year, from September, a ported number will be activated within one working day, as provided for by the European rules, whereas the related administrative procedures are to be carried out in 3 working days instead of 10.
The ANCOM decision reduces the timelines in which the providers have the obligation to make the specific activities associated to different phases of the porting process. Thus, the timeline in which the donor provider must respond to a porting request is reduced to one working day from 4. The reduction of this timeline will allow for achieving the porting faster, including in the cases where the donor provider identifies faults in the filling in of the request which require its reintroduction.
Starting from the first semester of 2010, ANCOM publishes statistical data on number portability in the Half-yearly reports on the electronic communications market, available on the ANCOM website, here. 
 
 
 
 
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