Digi Mobil is the champion of gatekeepers in Romania, the mobile phone operator managing to convince a very large number of customers to switch to its network in almost 8 years. In 2008, porters were launched in Romania, and since then and until now, the monthly number of porters has increased almost 10 times, with Digi Mobil being the main beneficiary of this trend.
From 2008 until now, 3.3 million porters have been processed in Romania, "of which 2.679.104 are mobile phone numbers and 635.622 are fixed phone numbers," according to ANCOM. 2016 will be the year of records in terms of goalkeepers, in the first 9 months, 698.176 numbers were ported, compared to 844.477 in 2015, so this year the figure of 900.000 goalkeepers would be reached.
As far as mobile telephony is concerned, Digi Mobil is the gatekeeper champion, the mobile operator convincing 870.768 customers to come to its network. The figure represents a quarter of the total numbers ported in Romania in 8 years, and this is thanks to the very low prices that Digi Mobil charges.
Digi Mobil is the goalkeeper champion in Romania
At quite a distance behind those from Digi Mobil, we find Vodafone with 685.989 customers coming to the network, Orange with 637.444 gateways in the network and Telekom with 445.103 gateways in the network. In the case of fixed telephony, the top is similar, the only exception being the fact that between Vodafone and Orange are those from UPC.
More details on the national situation regarding portability in Romania can be found in the press release below, published by ANCOM.
Portability anniversary over 3,3 million ported numbers in 8 years since the launch of the service
"The portability service is one of the Authority's successful projects, and this has been seen since its launch in 2008, with the number of users who chose to port their phone number growing steadily. In the eight asince its launch, more than 3,3 million phone numbers have changed their network, but not the owner. The users were thus able to benefit from the best offers for their needs, while also having at their disposal a negotiation tool in the relationship with the operators, who in turn promote increasingly competitive offers". said Catalin Marinescu, president of ANCOM.
8 years of portability
From October 21, 2008, when this service was launched, until mid-October 2016, 3.314.726 numbers were ported, of which 2.679.104 are mobile numbers and 635.622 are landline numbers.
The Romanians who chose another operator, but kept their phone number, were more and more numerous year by year: if in 2008 there were 15.681 porters, in 2009 there were 180.239 porters, in 2010 their number was of 221.219, in 2011 it reached 260.256, in 2012 255.893 goalkeepers were registered, 274.137 numbers were ported in 2013, and in 2014 and 2015 the increase was significant: 564.648 goalkeepers, respectively 844.477 . From the beginning of this year until now, 698.176 phone numbers have been ported.
Providers who received clients through porting
In the mobile telephony segment, RCS&RDS is the provider with the most numbers received through porting (870.768), followed by Vodafone with 685.989 numbers, Orange with 637.444 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications with 445.103 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications with 38.993 telephone numbers portable furniture.
The direction of migration of Romanian users is also maintained in terms of fixed telephony, RCS&RDS leading with 171.036 ported numbers, followed by Vodafone with 149.649 numbers, UPC with 132.715 numbers, Orange with 123.971 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications with 24.961 landline numbers received from other networks via porting.
The most requests for landline porting were registered in Bucharest and Ilfov county (191.827 numbers), the capital being followed by Cluj county with 36.382 ported numbers, Timis (31.288), Prahova (28.842) and Galati (24.527) .
Numbers ported to 2016
From January 1, 2016 until mid-October, 698.176 phone numbers were ported, of which 651.570 were mobile numbers and 46.606 landline numbers. The current year's monthly porting average was 73.282 numbers ported, and the most portings this year occurred in January (79.024 numbers).
Of the total number of 651.570 porters created until mid-October 2016, almost 51% are subscription-based phone numbers.
Providers who received porting customers in 2016
In the mobile telephony segment, in 2016 RCS&RDS is the operator with the most numbers received in the network through porting - 308.777 numbers, followed by Vodafone with 134.069 numbers, Orange with 140.253 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications with 50.194 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications with 18.250 ported numbers.
As far as landline numbers are concerned, the situation is similar. RCS&RDS received 16.731 phone numbers, followed by Orange (12.000 numbers), UPC with 8.549 numbers, Vodafone (4.504 numbers) and Telekom Romania Communications (2.172 ported numbers).
From a geographical point of view, the most porting of landline numbers took place in Bucharest (13.880 numbers), followed by the counties of Timiș (3.148 numbers), Dolj (2.475 numbers), Argeș (2.367 numbers) and Cluj (2.171 numbers).
