Number Portability Company (Pty) Ltd
Reg. No. 2005/040348/07 Vat Ref. No. 4830231124
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General Manager: CR Fagan *British |
•What is the Number Portability Company (commonly known as NPC)?
–A company formed jointly by MTN, Vodacom and Cell C as a result of 2001 Amendments to the Telecommunications Act which mandated ICASA to: “prescribe measures to ensure that number portability shall be introduced in 2005.”
–On 30 September 2005 Regulations were promulgated which mandated Implementation within 9 months i.e. 1 July 2006 In the event, due to the complexity of the porting process requiring extensive testing, and by agreement with ICASA, mobile number portability (MNP) was introduced on 10 November 2006.
NPC administers a Central Reference Database (CRDB) linked to the operators via a sophisticated network interface. The CRDB is an administrative database which used to track all porting process to effect the porting process from the intial porting request through to providing the new routing data to the operators so that necessary network routing can be updated.
With effect From Monday April 26 Geographic Number Portability (GNP) has been Introduced.
Telkom and Neotel Have concluded an agreement to expand the shareholding of NPC to include them. Thus NPC is now jointly owned by Cell C, MTN, Neotel, Telkom and Vodacom with effect from April 20 2010.
NPC can accordingly now offer GNP porting services..
Porting Statistics.
Since November 2006 to end May 2013 - 1,576,857 Mobile numbers have been successfully ported including port back and port on numbers
Average Mobile ports per month +- 19,960
With effect from April 26 2010 to end May 2013 - 290,775 Geographic numbers have been successfully ported.
Average Geographic ports per month +- 7,092
Please note that this figure includes bulk ports done in phase 1 of GNP from May 18 2009 but included once the system was implemented in April 2010.
