Why Number Porting Takes 30 Minutes
Mobile number porting is a legally mandated right, standardized by 3GPP and enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s. The consumer version is one sentence: disconnect the old SIM and wait thirty minutes. The technical version is a signalling relay, a portability database, and a synchronization problem that has nothing to do with routing speed. We trace what actually happens when a number moves between networks — and what happens when the move never completes. Along the way: the 2012 arrival of Golan Telecom and Hot Mobile that turned porting into a mass-market weapon, the 2008 incident where…
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