Local number portability enables a customer to change their telecommunications provider but retain the same telephone number within a local calling area. Cellular number portability enables a cellular customer to change their provider but retain the same telephone number, including the same cellular network access code.
Under the Act, a person who qualifies as an access seeker for either number portability service may apply to the Commission for a determination of:
- the functions that must be performed by a system for delivering number portability and the standard to which those functions must be performed;
- the formula for how the cost of delivering number portability must be apportioned between the access seeker and all access providers of number portability.
The Commission's portability decisions relate to two applications made by the industry:
2005 Number Portability Determination
On 31 August 2005, the Commission released its Number Portability Determination (Decision 554). This decision related to two applications made by the industry:
Number Portability Decision 554 has also been clarified in several respects in subsequent decisions.
Extension of Number Portability Determination
Local number portability enables a customer to change their telecommunications provider but retain the same telephone number within a local calling area. Cellular number portability enables a cellular customer to change their provider but retain the same telephone number, including the same cellular network access code.
