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Over 2,000,000 Mobile Telephony Numbers Ported in Romania

9.02.2016
 
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.ro website. 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.Â