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Telecommunications (Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Industry Standard 2020 - Australian Government

Description

You will need to comply with this industry standard if you are a mobile carriage service provider that supplies, or intends to supply, public mobile telecommunications services. This industry standard applies to:

  • the section of the telecommunications industry consisting the telecommunications industry consisting of mobile carriage service providers who supply or arrange for the supply of public mobile telecommunications services
  • every port of a mobile service number.

The purpose of this industry standard is to:

  • prevent the unauthorised porting of mobile service numbers
  • reduce harm to customers arising from unauthorised porting of mobile service numbers.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Act(s) name

Telecommunications Act 1997 Australian Government

Regulation(s) name

Telecommunications (Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Industry Standard 2020 Australian Government

Administering agency

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Communications Infrastructure