Part 1Preliminary

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

This is the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Portability Service Suppliers) Determination 2025.

2 Commencement

This determination commences at the start of the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed free of charge at www.legislation.gov.au.

3 Authority

This determination is made under subsection 110(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4 Repeal of the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Portability Service Suppliers) Determination 2015

The Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Portability Service Suppliers) Determination 2015 (Registration No. F2015L00292) is repealed.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

number portability means the right of a customer receiving a service in relation to a portable number to change the carriage service provider involved in providing the service, the carrier network involved in providing the service, or both, and retain the same telephone number.

Note: Rules for number portability are set out in the Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2025, which is available on the Federal Register of Legislation.

portability services are supporting services provided by or to carriers or carriage service providers in relation to the provision and operation of number portability. These services include:

port administration services;

ported number register database maintenance or provision; and

the provision of network information services, or intelligent network database services, for call routing.

Note: The following expressions used in this determination have the same meanings which they have in the Act (see in particular, sections 7, 87 and 109):

• carriage service provider;

• carrier;

• telecommunications activity.

6 References to other instruments

In this instrument, unless the contrary intention appears: