Cable & Wireless (C&W) is the clear winner in the number portability so far a 91 percent switching to Cable & Wireless according to data provided by C&W CEO Gary Sinclair on Thursday afternoon.
With only a few days since the sector started to allow the swapping of numbers in response to an IC Insider query Sinclair said “the numbers are overwhelmingly in our favour. Latest count 543 ported to us from Digicel and 52 ported out to Digicel from us”. Up to press time, Digicel representative who was contacted has not yet submitted their numbers.
The changes although more than the 200 the Minister responsible for telecommunication disclosed earlier this week, represent only a small fraction of the total number of more than 2 million phone customers in the island. Number portability has been long in coming and was promised to be in effect from last year but was put back based on request from Cable & Wireless.
While the change will provide telecom users with more flexibility it could be problems for some users in determining which numbers belong to which carrier with different pricing structure in place by the two dominant carriers.
595 phone numbers switched
June 25, 2015 by