If you start monitoring the services provided by various cellular operators, you will probably be surprised to find that other networks have more favorable tariffs than yours. You do not want to change the operator because you are used to your phone number and all your friends and acquaintances call you on it? In December 2013, a law was passed allowing a client to switch from one cellular network to another while retaining the subscriber number.
Until recently, the subscriber's cell phone number was the property of the telephone company. From time to time, articles appeared in the media that this was wrong, and the number should belong exclusively to the subscriber, who would independently decide on the choice of the operator. Since April 2014, many customers have switched from serving one cellular network to another, while maintaining their usual number.
What to do to change the cellular operator?
Nowadays, cellular networks offer more and more favorable tariffs, introduce new modern options and reduce the cost of telephone communications. Operators develop convenient SMS and Internet traffic packages, as well as award bonuses for the fact that you actively use the services of this particular network. Perhaps you would like to be serviced by another operator, but do not want to part with the usual telephone number known to all your surroundings.
In order to switch to another cellular network while maintaining your number, you need to come to the office of the operator you are interested in with your passport in hand. You will write a statement that you would like to become a subscriber of this telephone company, and within a week your number will be transferred from the current operator to a new one. You will be informed about this via SMS.
At the office of the new telecom operator, you will be given a SIM card that serves your usual number. The cost of switching from one telephone network to another is 100 rubles. It is important to pay off the debt in a timely manner in favor of the telephone network you leave, if any.
Change of mobile operator: what difficulties may arise?
The law, which provides an opportunity to switch from one mobile operator to another, provides for some difficulties that may arise for subscribers and protects their rights. For example, there is a solution for a situation in which 8 days ago or even earlier you wrote an application for the transfer and was accepted at the operator's office, but the transfer of the number did not take place. In this case, the operating company-operator is obliged by law to provide you with communication services free of charge until the moment when the number is transferred to the new network.
At present, the procedure for switching from one network to another while maintaining the number is sufficiently debugged, and the overwhelming majority of subscribers do not have any problems with this.
