Section 71Part 7 — Universal Service, Interconnection, Infrastructure Sharing, Numbering, Etc
Numbering
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The Office shall establish and manage a national plan for the allocation of telephone numbers among licensees in accordance with the regulations made in that respect under this Act by the Cabinet.
The Office shall, in managing the national plan for the allocation of numbers among licensees, pay due regard to the existing allocation of numbers.
Subject to this Act, the Office may make rules imposing on any licensee the responsibility to offer number portability if the Office is satisfied on reasonable grounds that —
the benefits likely to arise from the requirement to provide a particular form of number portability outweigh the likely cost of implementing it; and
the requirement will not impose an unfair burden on any licensee.
In this section —
"number portability" relates to the ability of customers to change licensee without having to change their telephone numbers.
Defined Terms
number portability