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Brazil number portability up in 2018

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Brazil number portability up in 2018

Number portability (NP) requests in Brazil reached 6.67mn in 2018, up 15.7% from 2017 according to ABR Telecom, the entity responsible for counting and operationalizing portability processes.

There were some 1.77mn requests for portability in fixed telephony, down from 1.89mn in 2017. In mobile telephony, NP requests reached 6.12mn, up 19.7% year-over-year.

Last year was the fifth consecutive year of growth in NP. Since the system was introduced in 2008, 47.6mn portability requests were made.

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