{"id":239904,"date":"2017-11-27T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=239904"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T09:53:31","slug":"number-portability-regulations-out-for-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/239904-number-portability-regulations-out-for-comment.html","title":{"rendered":"Number portability regulations out for comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has published new draft Number Portability Regulations and invited stakeholders to make written submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Number portability allows for mobile and fixed-line subscribers to keep their number, including prefixes, when switching from one service provider to another.<\/p>\n<p>Without mobile or geographic number portability, you would have to give up your number and get a new one when you switch operators.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said the draft regulations aim to ensure effective functionality of number portability, and that number portability occurs in an efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is ICASA\u2019s view that Number Portability has benefits for consumers in that it promotes customer choice, encourages competition, and has the potential to improve quality of service,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/220636-icasa-publishes-number-portability-findings-in-south-africa.html\">ICASA publishes number portability findings for South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has published new draft Number Portability Regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18090,28894],"class_list":["post-239904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa-icasa","tag-number-portability-company-npc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239908,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239904\/revisions\/239908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}