March 28 (SeeNews) - Montenegro citizens have transferred 95,000 phone numbers in the twelve years since the telecoms operators in the country started offering the option in December 2011, the country's telecommunications regulator, EKIP, said.
Some 77,920 numbers have been transferred in mobile networks and 17,080 in fixed-line networks, EKIP said in a statement last week.
The majority of transferred mobile numbers - some 39,690, or 51% of total, went to the network of M:tel, which is part of Telekom Srbija and is the largest of three mobile operators in the country. Further 23,480 mobile numbers, or 30% of total, were transferred to Crnogorski Telekom, which is controlled by Croatia's Hrvatski Telekom, and 14,750 mobile numbers, or 19% of all, went to One Crna Gora, which is part of Hungary's 4iG.