📋 Tender Overview
Postpaid mobile lines drove this progress by going from 1,862,223 ports in the first half of 2023 to 2,238,663 in the same period of 2024. During the first half of the year, 2,992,440 mobile lines changed operating companies through the number portability mechanism, which meant 9.97% more mobile ports compared to the 2,721,260 lines in the same period of 2023, reported the Supervisory Body for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
According to the PUNKU computer tool (https://punku.osiptel.gob.pe), this result is mainly due to the increase in ports of the postpaid modality, where there were 1,862,223 mobile lines ported in the first semester of 2023 to 2,238,663 lines ported between January and June of the current year, which represented an increase of 20.21%. Meanwhile, the portability of prepaid lines decreased by 12.25%, going from 859,037 to 753,777 prepaid lines in the similar period of 2023 and 2024.
Thus, postpaid lines that changed operating companies represented 74.81% of the total ports registered in the first half of the year, while 25.19% corresponded to ports of prepaid lines.
Portability in June was the second highest of the year
Mobile number portability reached 509,382 mobile lines in June, the second highest figure so far in 2024. This result meant an increase of 8.28% compared to mobile ports reported in the same month of 2023.
Of the total number of ports, 74.43% corresponded to the postpaid modality and 25.57% to the prepaid modality. In postpaid, 379,119 mobile ports were recorded, an amount that represented an advance of 14.68% compared to June of the previous year.
Companies that added the most lines
In June, the operating companies Claro and Entel were the only ones with a positive net result (the difference between lines gained and lost) in the face of intense competition to attract mobile lines from other operators, with 20,709 and 20,459 net lines gained, respectively. In parallel, the operating companies Movistar and Bitel recorded a negative net result of 24,572 and 16,501 net lines lost, each. Meanwhile, the virtual mobile operators (OMV) Guinea Mobile, Flash and Suma Movil also obtained a negative net result of 84, 10 and 1 mobile lines, respectively.
Fixed line portability
The number portability of fixed lines recorded a slight increase (2.21%) in June of this year, compared to the previous month, with a total of 1,853 fixed lines that changed operators. In the sixth month of the year, the companies Fravatel, Optical Networks and GTD Peru achieved the highest positive balances with 766, 401 and 74 net lines gained, while Telefonica del Peru registered a negative balance of 1,358 fixed lines.
