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Bulgaria to relax mobile phone number portability rules from 2010

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Bulgaria to relax mobile phone number portability rules from 2010

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Bulgaria’s Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) will ease number portability rules from March 2010, said chairman Veselin Bozhkov.

The watchdog has proposed scrapping the five leva fee for switching carriers and requesting the change with the accepting operator instead of with both under current regulations. The portability period will be limited to seven from 10 days at present.

The fee the accepting company pays to the donating company will be reduced to 16 to 18 leva from 25 leva for fixed number portability and 22 leva for mobile number portability. Mobiltel, the market’s largest player, said the fees should be matched. Market runner-up Globul echoed the opinion, while former state-run carrier Vivacom did not comment.

Anticipating fierce opposition by telecoms, the CRC has set a March 2010 deadline for the changes to take effect and give them time to make the technical changes, a CRC expert told Dnevnik.

Since the introduction of number portability in April 2008, 43 000 subscribers, or a modest 0.5 per cent of all, have transferred to another operator, retaining their number. Of this, 1300 were landlines. Mobiltel said it has accepted or donated less than one per cent, while Globul and Vivatel did not provide any figures.

 
Source: Dnevnik.bg

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