Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)RegulationsNumber Portability Regulations, 20185. Number portability for geographic numbers |
| (1) | A Licensee that has been allocated a block of geographic numbers, must offer number portability to subscribers who have been assigned a block of ten or more numbers (in multiples of 10, 100, 1000 and 10 000) within the same allocated block(s) provided that— |
| (a) | no numbers within the block to be ported, are assigned to other subscribers; |
| (b) | a number block is ported as a complete range and no individual numbers are ported from the assigned number block; and |
| (c) | the network termination points remain within the geographic boundaries associated with the allocated number block. |
| (2) | A Licensee that has been allocated geographic numbers must offer number portability to subscribers who have been assigned individual geographic numbers provided that the network termination point remains at a location that conforms to the geographic boundaries associated with the number block. |