Number Portability Company (Pty) Ltd

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Number Portability Company (Pty) Ltd

Reg. No. 2005/040348/07 Vat Ref. No. 4830231124

Directors: AJ Ittmann, G Blake, N Abed (Alternate), ADS Hay, A H Matthysen, S O’Brien (Alternate), J Moodley, Z Mahomed, J Dos Santos* (Alternate)

*Zimbabwean

•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 2010 Geographic Number Portability (GNP) was Introduced.

NPC is jointly owned by Cell C, MTN, Neotel (now named Liquid Telecom) ,Telkom and Vodacom since April 20 2010.

NPC offers Mobile and GNP porting services..

Porting Statistics.

Since November 2006 to end March 2020 - 12,827,057 Mobile numbers have been successfully ported including port back and port on numbers

Average Mobile ports per month +- 77,271

With effect from April 26 2010 to end March 2020 -1,930,505 Geographic numbers have been successfully ported.

Average Geographic Ports per month +-16,500

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.