Number Portability
In 2000, then President Fernando De La Rúa signed a decree deregulating the telephone service in Argentina, thus allowing number portability to be implemented. In December 2011, Argentine authorities postponed number portability once again -allegedly due to lobbying from operators- until March 2012.
If that date is honoured, telephone users in Argentina -both mobile and landline- will be able to switch providers while keeping their phone number, provided they don't change the subscriber local area.
Number portability is expected to bring lower rates and better service quality, since operators will have to carry out additional efforts, both to keep their existing customers from leaving and to attract other operators' users to their networks.
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