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Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

Regulations

Numbering Plan Amendment Regulations, 2020

12. Supplying information about numbers

 

(1) A licensee must:
(a) refrain from publishing directory information about a number assigned to a subscriber, if the licensee concerned has not obtained prior written permission in which a subscriber consents to the publication of their assigned number;
(b) change the directory information about the number assigned to a subscriber if the subscriber has so requested in writing;
(c) change the numbers assigned to a subscriber if the subscriber has so requested in writing after receiving incorrectly or mischievously dialled communications and;
(d) Prohibit the transmission of an inaccurate Calling Line Identification (CLI) as the originator of communication.

 

(2) Numbers that are reported and found to be used in the manipulation of the CLI, shall be barred as per subregulation 9(2).