ANCOM announced yesterday the launch for public consultation of a proposal that provides for the reduction of porting rates for mobile and landline numbers. We are talking about a rate that was paid by the accepting provider to the donor provider for each ported number, the change being proposed because the current rates date from 2010.
ANCOM supports a 44% decrease in the tariff for each ported fixed number, which will decrease from 7.8 euros to 4.4 euros, so the accepting operators will have to win here. For mobile phone numbers, the rates would decrease by 66% from 5.6 euros to 1.9 euros, the difference being a huge one, but behind it there is an interesting plan of those from ANCOM.
ANCOM: we want to motivate operators to launch better porting offers
ANCOM representatives claim that the substantial reduction of porting rates would be based on the intention to convince mobile operators to launch more advantageous offers for porting. Sorin Grindeanu, the president of ANCOM, is the one who supports this idea, and to be honest, the appearance of better offers for mobile and fixed telephony is not really that bad for us.
"Taking into account the significant volume of ported numbers at the national level in recent years and the fact that these rates were established in 2010, we propose a 44% decrease in the rate for each ported fixed number from 7,8 euros to a maximum of 4,4, 66 euros, respectively with 5,6% of the tariff for each ported mobile number, from 1,9 euros to a maximum of XNUMX euros. Reducing the costs of accepting providers could stimulate operators to launch more advantageous offers on the market to attract new users or retain existing ones."
ANCOM proposed at the end of last year and reduction of interconnection tariffs for mobile telephony in Romania, this measure may lead to a reduction in costs for national minutes and SMS. Of course, all these measures must go through the public consultation procedure before being adopted, so mobile phone operators could oppose and force the non-adoption of these important changes.
