Vodafone has during the major disturbance after a fire in a plant in Rotterdam a few weeks ago, a number of sim cards transferred on the network of KPN. This tested the provider or that the next interference is large-scale is possible.
The test succeeded, says woorvoerder Joost Galema of Vodafone against Tweakers.net. “It was a test on a small scale; we have a couple of sims transferred.” KPN offered according to an employee of the provider to get more people to convert from Vodafone to KPN, but Vodafone would be of the offer have made no use. After the transfer, customers could according to the employees do not make use of Voicemail, the customer service is not to be called in and worked dates.
The test shows that it is technically possible to customers when a fault via a different network to call, but there are still concerns, says the provider. So, it is still not certain that customers at a great fault to stay by them to the network of a competitor.
T-Mobile confirms that the providers conduct consultations and are willing to examine the possibilities. “It is very complex matter which we carefully first the boundary conditions have to adopt,” said spokeswoman Liselore Stuut. The talks take place at the request of minister Verhagen, responsible for telecom.
The minister said earlier objections to see in the so-called national roaming at large disturbances. The biggest objection is the capacity; it would be difficult for the networks to a major failure millions of other customers to serve, because the capacity was not there, is geared. It is thought that national roaming, in case of a failure, therefore, a paid option, or an option for only certain users.
The carriers deny that there is already a contract is signed for the take over of each other’s customers in a major malfunction. The Telegraph reported that Thursday morning, but according to the providers it goes as yet only exploratory talks.