1. Introduction
The new Number Portability Regulation was published on 9 January
2025 with the aim of improving, harmonising and standardising the
rules applicable to number portability. The new Regulation
maintains the principles already contained in Regulation 58/2005 of
18 August 2005 (and subsequent amendments). However, it introduces
the changes necessary to comply with the latest legal requirements
and to ensure greater efficiency and consumer protection.
The Number Portability with the 2022 Electronic
Communications Law. Regulation recently approved by ANACOM
reinforces user protection and information.
Portability is a mechanism that allows an end-user who has
subscribed to communications services that involve the use of
numbers included in the National Numbering Plan ("NNP")
to keep their number if they wish to transfer the subscribed
services to another electronic communications operator. Article 141
of the Communications Law establishes the right
