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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009 …

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009 . national numbering plan regulations , 2017 . ARRANGEMENT OF regulations . Regulation PART I PRELIMINARY. 1. Citation 2. Interpretation 3. Submission of Documents 4. Applicability 5. Scope of the regulations 6. Title in the numbering Resources PART II STRUCTURE OF THE national numbering plan . 7. Structure 8. Short Codes 9. Status of Number Resources 10. Customers' Dialling Procedure 11. Signalling Point Codes (SPCs). 12. Network Codes 13. Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) Codes 14. Transitional Arrangements PART III MANAGEMENT OF THE numbering RESOURCES. 15. Responsibilities of the Authority 16. General Conditions of Use 17. Duties of Providers 18. Eligibility to apply for numbering Resources 19. Application process for an allocation of numbering Resources 20.

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1 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009 . national numbering plan regulations , 2017 . ARRANGEMENT OF regulations . Regulation PART I PRELIMINARY. 1. Citation 2. Interpretation 3. Submission of Documents 4. Applicability 5. Scope of the regulations 6. Title in the numbering Resources PART II STRUCTURE OF THE national numbering plan . 7. Structure 8. Short Codes 9. Status of Number Resources 10. Customers' Dialling Procedure 11. Signalling Point Codes (SPCs). 12. Network Codes 13. Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) Codes 14. Transitional Arrangements PART III MANAGEMENT OF THE numbering RESOURCES. 15. Responsibilities of the Authority 16. General Conditions of Use 17. Duties of Providers 18. Eligibility to apply for numbering Resources 19. Application process for an allocation of numbering Resources 20.

2 Reservation of numbering Resources 21. Confidentiality of an applicant's INFORMATION 22. Withdrawal of Allocations 23. Notification of number activation 24. Duration of Allocations 25. Applications ITU-T numbering Resources 26. Appeals against allocation and withdrawal decisions PART IV AUDIT OF THE USE OF numbering RESOURCES. 27. Objective of Audit 28. Audit Methods 29. Frequency of Audit 30. Content of the Annual Audit Return 1. PART V FEES. 31. Timetable for the payment of fees 32. Determination of fees PART VI REVIEW AND REVISION OF THE regulations . 33. Purpose of Review PART VII CONTRAVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT. 34. Contravention and Enforcement SCHEDULE. 2. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009 . national numbering plan regulations , 2017 . IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred on the Minister responsible for INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS by section 98 of the INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Act, 2009 these regulations are made.

3 PART I PRELIMINARY. 1. Citation These regulations may be cited as the national numbering plan regulations 2017 . 2. Interpretation In these regulations , unless the context otherwise requires- Act means the INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Act, 2009 ;. Allocation means the granting of the rights to use a block of numbering resources by the Authority to a provider of INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Services;. Assigning means the association of an individual number or group of numbers by a provider of INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS services to an end user for use with the service being provided;. Call shall include SMS texts and other services;. Customer shall include the INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Act's use of the term subscriber ;. Dialled shall include any method a customer uses to initiate a call.

4 Directory Look-up means the use of a number as a key to access some form of directory that returns IP address(es) or alternative telephone numbers or some other INFORMATION to the caller or calling device . It excludes number translation databases used for specially tariff numbers;. means the ITU-T Recommendation in The International Public Telecommunication numbering plan , 2010;. ENUM means the translation of an number to one or more IP. addresses in accordance with the RIPE specification RFC 6116: The 3. to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM) March 2011 and any subsequent amendments;. Free Phone means a call that is free of charges to the calling customer, sometimes referred to as Toll Free or Free Phone.

5 Machine-to-Machine (M2M) means a call that is initiated by a device, rather than the customer, to another device or automated answering service;. Number Portability means that the customer, including third party service providers, retains their number when changing the provider that supplies their service;. numbering Resources means the prefixes, codes, short codes, numbers and numbering ranges specified in these regulations ;. Off-net means that calls originate and terminate on different networks;. On-net means that calls originate and terminate on the same network;. Premium Rate means a call to service where the charge to the calling customer includes payment for the service accessed, normally in addition to standard calls or SMS charges;. Provider'' means provider of INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Services.

6 PURA means Public Utility Regulatory Authority;. Short Codes means numbers with significantly fewer digits than customer numbers. They may be used as numbers in their own right or as prefixes to other numbers for some special purpose, normally call routing purposes;. Specially Tariff Numbers means numbers where the calling customer pays a tariff that is different from the INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS Services provider's standard call or message tariffs;. Third party service providers mean service providers, including providers that offer value added services to telecommunications customers of INFORMATION and COMMUNICATIONS services providers through the use of numbers or SMS Codes;. TSB means the Telecommunications Standards Bureau;. 4. ITU-T means the International Telecommunications Union.

7 Telecommunications;. ITU means the International Telecommunications Union;. URI means Uniform Resource Identification;. Written shall include physical and electronic COMMUNICATIONS . 3. Submission of Documents Where a person is required to submit a document in writing to the Authority, must be such document . (a) by direct electronic input to any Number Management System that the Authority may introduce;. (b) by hand to the head offices of the Authority;. (c) by post to the head offices of the Authority;. (d) by electronic mail;. (e) by facsimile; and (f) in any other manner approved in writing by the Authority. 4. Applicability (1) These regulations are applicable to the allocation for and use of Gambian numbering resources as set out in these regulations by individual and class licensees.

8 (2) Unlicensed providers may not use numbering resources in any manner that contravenes or compromises the use of numbering resources as specified in these regulations . (3) Private networks whose numbers can be accessed by users of public networks must only use numbers allocated by the Authority that have been assigned to them by an individual or class licence holder. 5. Scope of the regulations (1) These regulations are made to provide a regulatory framework for the control, planning, administration, management and assignment of numbers pursuant to the Act. 5. (2) numbering Resources for satellite, maritime and other global services that use a Country Code assigned by the ITU-T for these purposes do not form part of the national numbering plan . The ITU-T. has nominated an appropriate recognized operating agency to administer the numbering Resources for each of these Country Codes.

9 (3) Internet names and addresses (such as IP addresses, URIs etc.). are not part of the national numbering plan and are not governed by these regulations . (4) Retail Tariffs and Interconnection terms and agreements are subject to regulations determined by the Authority that have precedence over these regulations . References to Retail Tariffs and Interconnection terms in these Regulation is for descriptive purposes only unless the Authority determines otherwise. 6. Title in the numbering Resources (1) numbering Resources for electronic COMMUNICATIONS purposes are a national resource. Title in the numbering resources remains with the Authority who grants rights to use of the resources to providers. (2) Providers shall not trade the rights to use numbering resources.

10 (3) Providers shall not transfer the rights to use numbering resources other than . (a) a customer requests the transfer of individual numbers when they change the provider that provides their services;. and (b) the transfer or takeover of the provider's corporate assets by another provider after obtaining the permission of the Authority. PART II STRUCTURE OF THE national numbering plan . 7. Number Structure To achieve the numbering policy aims, the Authority has structured the numbering resource based on E. 164 numbering plan . 8. Short Codes (1) Short Codes used for voice and related services form part of the national numbering plan . 6. (2) Short Codes used for SMS text messaging and related services are included in the Gambian national numbering plan . (3) Short Codes are categorised as follows- (a) emergency Services: All providers are required to route calls dialled by their customers to the correct terminating point without charge to the calling customer.


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