📋 Tender Overview
Portability grows. In the month of May 2023, a total of 468,804 mobile lines changed operating companies, which meant a growth of 9.29% compared to the figures reported in the previous month, reported the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
The information published in the digital tool PUNKU revealed that the growth in the number of portations nationwide was observed mainly in the postpaid segment, which represented 69.70% of the total operations registered in May; Meanwhile, 30.30% corresponds to the prepaid modality.
Thus, during the last twelve months, portability in the postpaid segment reached its highest record, with 326,770 portings in May, which represented an increase of 13.94% compared to April (286,789). On the other hand, regarding portings in the prepaid segment, these were 142,034, which meant a slight reduction (-0.09%) compared to the figures registered in the previous month (142,156).
It should be noted that the process of number portability, whether for a fixed or mobile service, is free and allows the user to keep their telephone number when changing operating companies. This is intended to promote competition between operators of mobile and fixed services for the benefit of users, as they have to strive to retain their subscribers and attract new customers.
Entel remains the company with the best net result
For the second consecutive month, Entel was positioned as the operating company with the highest positive net balance (the difference between lines won and lost) (18,857), followed by Claro, which reached 17,003 net mobile lines carried in May.
Meanwhile, Movistar (-20 604), Bitel (-14 901), Flash (-288) and Guinea Mobile (-67) were the operating companies that obtained negative net balance in the fifth month of this year.
Fixed portability grows
According to the information provided by the operating companies nationwide, in May of this year, 2643 fixed lines changed operator, which represented a growth of 55.56% over the previous month (1699 fixed lines ported).
The operating companies Ingeniería en Gestión de Negocios y Oportunidades (869), Optical Networks (756) and Claro (539) were the ones that achieved the highest positive net balance. At the other extreme was Movistar (-1470) and Winner (-853) that obtained the highest negative net balance.
