📋 Tender Overview
A total of 424629 mobile lines changed operating companies in February of this year evidencing a decline of 6.17 compared to the same period last year reported the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications OSIPTEL.According to the information available in the PUNKU computer tool the portings corresponding to the postpaid segment represented 68.20 of the total while 31.80 belonged to the prepaid modality. Thus 289604 postpaid line portings were completed which represented a decrease of 2.47 compared to February 2022. Meanwhile the prepaid segment decreased 13.24 compared to the same month last year totaling 135025 portings in February.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. In this way it helps 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.Claro obtained the best net resultFor the second consecutive month Claro obtained the highest net balance the difference between lines gained and lost positive reaching 21789 net mobile lines carried in February followed by Entel with 12358 and the virtual mobile operator MVNO Dolphin with 7.On the other hand Movistar -23 231 Bitel -10 286 Flash -519 Guinea Mobile -116 and Suma Mvil -2 were the operating companies that had a negative net balance in February 2023.How is fixed portability goingAs for fixed portability in the second month of this year 2470 fixed lines changed operators which meant a decrease of 33.23 compared to the same month of the previous year and 76.30 compared to January 2023.The operating companies Optical Networks 793 Claro 500 and Fravatel 128 were the ones that achieved the highest positive net balance. At the other extreme were Movistar -1270 and Americatel -344 with the highest negative net balance.
