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

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Number Portability Regulations, 2018

5. Number portability for geographic numbers

 

(1) A Licensee that has been allocated a block of geographic numbers, must offer number portability to subscribers who have been assigned a block of ten or more numbers (in multiples of 10, 100, 1000 and 10 000) within the same allocated block(s) provided that—
(a) no numbers within the block to be ported, are assigned to other subscribers;
(b) a number block is ported as a complete range and no individual numbers are ported from the assigned number block; and
(c) the network termination points remain within the geographic boundaries associated with the allocated number block.

 

(2) A Licensee that has been allocated geographic numbers must offer number portability to subscribers who have been assigned individual geographic numbers provided that the network termination point remains at a location that conforms to the geographic boundaries associated with the number block.