NP requests in Brazil reach 4.2 million

Some 4.2 million people requested number portability in Brazil last year, according to data ABR Telecom published.

The agency manages number portability in the country. It also reported that 3.2 million people completed their switch to a new provider – equivalent to 1.56 percent of the 210 million fixed and mobile lines in the country.

ABR Telecom said that 2.28 million lines were mobile phones and about 1 million were fixed line connections.

NP was introduced in Brazil in September 2008, and it was available throughout the country by March 2009.