Number portability: the terms set

The Prime Minister, Abdelaziz Djerad, set the conditions and modalities for the implementation of

mobile phone number portability. This law will allow the Algerian consumer to keep his telephone number even after changing operator. The Post and Communications Regulatory Authority

This law officially entered into force, indicates the official newspaper which specifies that it was from now on possible "for a subscriber to the services of the mobile telephony to keep his telephone number when he changes operator". The decree also indicates that "mobile telephone operators are required to make available to their subscribers, at all times and by any appropriate means, the operator identity statement (RIO) and the information necessary for the exercise of their right to number portability.

Call to operators

Via the official journal, the Prime Minister called on mobile telephone operators to set up number portability and guarantee it permanently to all their prepaid and postpaid subscribers "under transparent, objective conditions. and non-discriminatory”. Still according to the same decree, another article underlines that "the request for number portability is established according to a form, the model of which is fixed by the Regulatory Authority, made available to the subscriber by the recipient operator"

In the decree signed by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, it is also mentioned that "the Regulatory Authority ensures that the information necessary for the exercise of the right to portability of numbers is accessible to subscribers, in accordance with the legislation and to the regulations in force”.

In addition, it is emphasized that it is now possible to request portability to one or more numbers covered by the same subscription contract. The ministerial decree also indicates that “mobile telephone operators are required to set up an automated system for transmitting requests“.