Electronic and Postal Communications (Mobile Number Portability)
G.N. No. 422 (contd)
Cap. 172
portability, whereby a network operator makes copies of
central data base of ported numbers and queries it to find
out which network to send a call to;
“Authority” means the Tanzania Communications Regulatory
Authority
(TCRA) established under the Tanzania
Communications Regulatory Authority Act;
“CDMA” means Code Division Multiple Access technology;
“donor” means the provider of public telephone services whose
subscriber or former subscriber wants to use or uses the
services of another provider of public telephone services in
retaining the subscriber number, which was or is used to
receive electronic communication services of the donor;
“electronic communication number” means the number, sign or
other mark which an electronic communication operator
uses in its delivery of electronic communication services
for identification of electronic communication facilities in
order to connect between the place of transmission and the
place of reception or for identification of the type of
content of transmission to be delivered by the electronic
communication facility;
“electronic communication operator” means any person licensed by
the Authority to provide electronic communication
services;
“GSM” means Global System for Mobile communications
technology;
“licensee” for purposes of these Regulations means provider of
public land mobile network services;
“mobile number portability” means the customer’s retention of his
mobile number(s) as he changes from one mobile service
provider to another;
“national numbering plan” means the plan for electronic
communications numbers as maintained by the Authority;
“national significant number” means the number to be dialled
following the national (trunk) prefix to obtain a subscriber
in the same country or group of countries included in one
integrated numbering plan but outside the same local
network or numbering area;
“number portability clearinghouse” means a centralized automated
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