Around 700,000 of the ported phone numbers were landline numbers.
The number of Romanians who kept their phone numbers but switches service providers grew from 844,477 in 2015 to 939,663 in 2016. Around 700,000 phone numbers were ported this year by mid-October, the regulator said.
Over the past nine years, RCS&RDS was the destination network for over 1.32 million phone numbers, followed by Vodafone with 844,811 numbers, Orange with 824,608 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications with 504,731 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications with 59,656 numbers.
The trend was the same in 2017, with RCS&RDS getting 330,699 numbers by mid-October, followed by Orange with 144,469, Vodafone with 117,595 numbers, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications with 45,906 numbers and Telekom Romania Communications with 16,593 numbers.