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Number portability will be available for all Brazil

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   From this Monday (2), all users of fixed and mobile telephony in the country can change the operator without changing the phone number. The last phase of implementation of number portability will reach 37.8 million users in 362 municipalities of DDDs 53 (RS), 64 (GO), 66 (MT), 91 (PA) and 11 (SP). With this, all 193 million users across the country have access portability.

According to the ABR Telecom, the entity that manages number portability in Brazil, since the service went into effect, 491.8 thousand users of fixed and mobile telephony operator asked the exchange to maintain the phone number. Of these, 326.8 thousand users had their phone numbers transferred to new operators chosen.

Among the regions that will have access portability in this Monday, the DDD 11 which serves the capital of São Paulo and 63 more cities in the state which is concentrated the largest number of users in the country with 15.9% (30.8 million ) of subscribers of mobile services and fixed. In DDD 91, Belém (PA) and 80 other counties have 3.3 million users, representing 1.7% of the total country.

In Rio Grande do Sul, the portability will be implemented in DDD 53, which serves the 25 municipalities gauchos and 1.1 million users. DDD in 64 of Missouri, 102 cities have access portability, benefiting 1.3 million users. 90 municipalities in Mato Grosso treated by DDD-66, 1.2 million subscribers will have the benefit.

To change the provider and keep the number, consumers should go for which service he wants to move and explain that I have a new qualification maintaining the current number. The former operator will have at most a day to check the user's data and the process of porting to be completed until five days after the request of the consumer.

In telephony, the portability can only be made within the same local area municipality or group of municipalities. For the cell, maintaining the number is possible within the area of record that corresponds to the DDD.

The portability of application may be refused if the data is incorrect or incomplete, if the number is missing or has been requested another application for portability.



Source: Agência Brasil

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