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Number Portability Regulations, 2018

6. Number of portability for mobile and non-geographic numbers

 

(1) A Licensee that has been allocated mobile and non-geographic numbers in the 086, 080 and 087 NDCs numbers must offer number portability to its subscribers who have been assigned such numbers.

 

(2) Non-geographic numbers in the 080 and 086 NDC may only be ported as an assigned individual number.

 

(3) A recipient operator may request to port an assigned number block of ten or more numbers (in multiples of 10, 100, 1000 and 10 000) of non-geographic numbers (080, 086 and 087) provided that:
(a) no numbers within the assigned block to be ported are assigned to other subscribers;
(b) the assigned number block is ported as a complete range and no individual numbers are ported from the assigned number block;