Grounds:
The Communications Regulation
Commission (CRC) by Decision № 2050 dated September 18, 2008 adopted Draft FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS for
portability of non-geographic numbers in the event of change of the provider of
the relevant service.
In
accordance with Art.134, para1, item 2 of the Law on Electronic Communications
(LEC) the undertakings providing public telephone services should provide their
customers with the possibility to retain their non-geographic number in the event of change of the
provider of the relevant service.
Following
§ 6 (1) of the Transitional and Final Provisions of the LEC this obligation is
into force and should be implemented as of January 1, 2009.
As per
Art.134, para 3 of the LEC the non-geographic numbers
portability has to be implemented in accordance with rules, defined in
functional specifications, adopted by the CRC.
I
connection with the above competencies, with the present draft the CRC defines
the technical rules, the procedure and the payment principles for the
portability implementation, which considers that have to be defined by the
regulator.
The CRC
considers that the adoption of the current draft will contribute to the creation
of conditions for development of competition in providing services through
non-geographic numbers.
In
accordance with Art.134, para