Episode Details

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 loosened identity checks got dozens of subscribers ported without their knowledge, and an honest look at why the published porting timelines don't agree with each other. Episode #102365 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/102365