The conservation of number portability for mobile phone, it must differentiate desesclavización gap or the telephone terminal. The terminal can be issued, acquired only a terminal, without any linkage to an operator, so the subscriber can employ a number and a company or move to another without any hindrance.
There is also the phenomenon of blocking, so the terminal is funded on a percentage by the operator, claiming that for a while or even be frozen indefinitely in the hands of the company and the services they provide, failing the subscriber contract with other, unless you unlock it.
Should I release the blocked terminal to carry?
When the subscriber wants to do, and has a blocked terminal, it should be released, unlocked to be used by another operator, if it has been assumed in the General Terms and Conditions of purchase of the terminal. If not released, the terminal will remain blocked with the company that was in the beginning, ie with which the subscriber is going to discontinue, for a definite or indefinite, depending on the type of service (contract or prepaid card) or company.
To unlock the terminal, each company follows its own system, so that the subscriber must report taking into account the General Terms and Conditions of your handset, which are the concrete conditions of the release of same, and if unable to do so thus informed by its operator. Basically there are two possibilities, or allow a period of time or pay the amounts set out the conditions of employment of the mobile phone. Still another option that has the subscriber will stop using the terminal I had, bought another terminal free no phone number, and port the number to that terminal free, subject to cost to have the new terminal.
Do the fees for the new entrant?
The rule regarding the rates, is that when making portability, the call goes from subscriber fees to the operator that you unsubscribe to the operator who hires.
A different perspective is, in a call from mobile to mobile number if the second number is ported. In that case the rate is applied to the operator behaved, and doubt can be raised in the same caller, thinking of the number belonging to an operator (which has been discharged), and has ported the call, imposing tariffs to the caller different than I expected. For example: Movistar portal on Airtel and Amena call this number thinking it belongs to Movistar, however the rate is applied to Airtel.
How long does it take to port a number?
The time it takes to port a number depends on whether the subscriber has chosen a particular moment of change or not. If they have not chosen, will follow the general procedure. There is a certain freedom within the procedure from which the subscriber signs the application in the dispenser until it changes from one operator to another, which usually takes about two or three weeks. Within this general procedure, the only deadline is five working days from the request is received by the operator that will give low (the application is filed on its website) until at least the term begins window for change. This, it occurs between 3 pm and 6 am the day to alert the operator to the subscriber. If the subscriber has chosen the time when he seeks to carry, this date must be within the month following the date of application.
