From this Sunday (29/07), with mobile devices will have a 11 digit code 9 at the beginning of their numbers. The only mobile phones in the 11 remaining unchanged - with eight digits - are Nextel radio.
As for now, is valid for any link regional, national or international made to the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, which comprises 64 municipalities. But the idea is that the ninth digit password to operate throughout Brazil.
During the press conference of Anatel, held in Sao Paulo this setxa Monday (27/07), Adeilson Birth, manager of interconnections of the agency, said there is no deadline for the change of numbers in the rest of the country. "It may take several years. We can not say how long it will take to standardization. However, the next areas to receive the ninth digit should be 21 (RJ), 31 (MJ), 51 (RS) and 81 (EP)" he said.
According to Nascimento, the change is justified by the need for greater availability of numbers. Currently, the region with code 11, the operators have requested assignment to 42 million lines. With eight digits, the maximum combination of different numbers is 44 million. Already with nine digits, the maximum combination of lines shall be 90 million different numbers.
Adaptation
The change is not abrupt. The FCC and the telephone operators in Brazil drew up a plan of gradual adaptation. In the first ten days after the start of installation, whether to add the digit 9 in the calls, the calls will be completed automatically. But, you may receive warning alerts the operator to change. The switching time of reporting the change is not charged to the user.
After this period of ten days, the calls made without dialing the new number will be intercepted and the user is informed of the need to update your schedule. After day 23 January 2013, there will be no more warnings of this kind, and if someone calls to area 11, entering only eight numbers will receive the message that number no longer exists.
Instabilities
The manager of the FCC noted that on Sunday there may be some instability in the system, resulting from changes in the structures. "There will be small and should not last more than one or two minutes," he said Nascimento.
The spokesman also reiterated that all operational responsibility of the operators is that, even bore the cost of $ 300 million in upgrading the infrastructure needed to adapt.
