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

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Numbering Plan Amendment Regulations, 2020

5. Allocating and reserving numbers

 

(1) A licensee must apply to the Authority for an allocation or reservation of numbers that have status 'released'.

 

(2) The application set out in subregulation (1) must be furnished in the format as set out in Schedule 3 of these Regulations.

 

(3) Within twenty (20) days of receipt of an application by the Authority, an application may be:
(a) approved or it may be approved with such variations as the Authority deems necessary;
(b) declined and in such an instance, the Authority shall provide reasons in writing for declining the application; or
(c) consulted upon as set out in subregulation (5).

 

(4) The Authority may consult with the relevant licensee on details of its application for numbers prior to deciding on the application.

 

(5) Should the Authority consult with a relevant licensee in terms of subregulation (4), the 20 days contemplated in subregulation (3) shall be extended on condition that:
(a) additional information is required from the applicant; or
(b) there are significant issues relating to the application that the Authority cannot process and or obtain clarity within the 20 days processing period; or
(c) the Authority considers that the utilisation of the numbers already allocated to the licensee and subject to the same usage conditions as the numbers requested is less than 80% for mobile and machine related numbers and less than 60% for geographic and other non-geographic numbers, calculated as follows:
(i) For geographic and other non-geographic numbers, the degree of usage shall be calculated as follows:

 

Degree of usage =

total numbers assigned to customers within an NDC

X 100

Total numbers allocated within an NDC

 

 

(ii) For mobile and machine related numbers, the degree of usage shall be calculated as follows"

 

Degree of usage =

total numbers assigned to customers and used for internal network purposes

X 100

Total numbers allocated to a licensee

 

(6) The following number ranges are subject to individual number allocation or reservation: 080; 086 0 and 086 1.

 

(7) The Authority reserves the right to declare certain non-geographic number ranges or sub-ranges for individual number allocations. The Authority shall publish the relevant ranges in a notice.