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

Regulations

Number Portability Regulations, 2018

10. Cost recovery and charging

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(1) A Licensee must bear the set-up costs for the implementation and provisioning of number portability.

 

(2) No payments must be made for rejected or unsuccessful ports.

 

(3) Per-subscriber porting fees between licensees must be cost based.

 

(4) A donor operator must not charge subscribers when the latter ports their numbers.

 

(5) Recipient operator may charge a subscriber for successful ports.

 

(6) In the event that the recipient operator charges a subscriber for successful ports, the recipient operator must declare the said charges to the subscriber prior initiating the port.