📋 Tender Overview
Growth was driven by portability in the postpaid segment, which reached its historical peak of 417,977 ported mobile lines. Entel and Bitel achieved the best positive net results, surpassing Claro and Movistar, which had more lines lost than gained. In October, 571,778 mobile lines changed operator nationwide, the highest record of mobile porting since August 2019 (576,254), according to information reported by the Private Investment Supervisory Agency in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
This growth was driven mainly by the porting of lines in the postpaid segment, which in October totaled 417,977, a new historical peak since the relaunch of the portability procedure in July 2014. Thus, porting in this segment represented 73.10% of the total recorded nationwide.
Meanwhile, the prepaid lines ported in October (153,801) represented 26.90% of the total, according to information published on the PUNKU portal (www.punku.osiptel.gob.pe/) of OSIPTEL.
Entel and Bitel achieved positive net results
In October, Entel achieved the highest net result (difference between lines gained and lost) with 9,925 net lines ported. Bitel was next with 8,590 net lines ported.
For its part, Claro, which last month was the company with the best positive net result, obtained a negative net balance (-2,851), as a consequence of having more lines lost than gained. The company had not had a negative balance since August 2020.
It should be noted that the other companies with negative net results in October were Suma Movil (-1), Dolphin Mobile (-2), Guinea Mobile (-42), Flash (-478) and Movistar (-15,141).
Fixed line portability
Regarding the portability of fixed telephone lines, 1,892 lines changed operator companies in October, which meant a 74.89% decrease compared to the previous month (7,534 lines).
Win Empresas and GTD Peru were the operators with the most positive net lines during the month of analysis, with 546 and 348 lines, respectively. Meanwhile, Movistar had the highest negative net result (-1,154).
