Electronic and Postal Communications (Mobile Number Portability)
G.N. No. 422 (contd)
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Number
portability
clearinghouse
obligations
the recipient shall be responsible for notifying the
subscriber about the status of the number
portability;
the mobile number portability process shall be
carried out in such a way that the time between
deactivation and activation of the ported number
shall not exceed fifteen minutes;
the number portability clearinghouse administrator
shall, prior to activation of the ported subscriber
number, electronically inform all licensees about
the ported subscriber number specifying the
subscriber number being ported, and the donors’
and recipients’ networks identification data;
licensees shall ensure their wholesale or retail
billing systems are capable of recognising the
establishing number portability for correct
accounting and billing.
8.-(1) The number portability shall be carried out through
the number portability clearinghouse database ensuring the
possibility to receive information about any subscriber number,
which is necessary to direct the information being communicated
to the networks of licensees.
(2) The number portability process shall be carried out by
means of the number portability clearinghouse processes engine
ensuring proper inter-operator processes necessary to initiate,
reject, accept, complete and terminate porting of numbers between
licensees.
(3) The number portability clearinghouse administrator
shall operate independently from licensees operating in the United
Republic and shall not, by all economical and legal connections, be
related to them.
(4) The number portability clearinghouse administrator
shall be issued a licence by the Authority to provide administration
services in accordance with the procedures set by the Authority.
(5) The number portability clearinghouse administrator
shall remit on quarterly basis, to the Authority information of
ported numbers used by specific licensees.
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