Parties to the Number Portability Determination
On 31st August 2005 the Commerce Commission issued a Determination in respect of local and cellular telephone number portability which set out the formula for allocating the cost of delivering the Number Portability Services between the access seekers and access providers of the service, the functions that must be performed by a system for delivering the Number Portability Services and the standard to which those functions must be performed.
The Commerce Commission monitors the eligibility of access providers for the term of the Determination and issues updated statements where necessary. The latest statement issued by the Commerce Commission was on 4 June 2010 which advised that Teletraders is now eligible as an access provider and seeker to the local telephone Number Portability Service.
The following provides details of which parties are access seekers and access providers of the cellular and local Number Portability Service as at the date of the last statement issued by the Commerce Commisssion on 4 June 2010:
Parties to Cellular Number Portability Service
- CallPlus
- Compass
- M2 NZ
- Orcon
- Telecom
- TelstraClear
- Two Degrees Mobile
- Vodafone
Parties to Local Number Portability Service
- Airnet
- CallPlus
- Compass
- Link Telecom
- Orcon
- Symbio Networks
- Telecom
- Teletraders
- TelstraClear
- Vodafone
- Woosh
- WorldxChange
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