The Telecommunications (Interconnection) (Number Portability, etc.) Regulations 1999

• “Donor Operator" means an Operator or Service Provider whose customer number(s) are in the process of being, or have been passed or ported to a Recipient Operator;

• “Mobile Portability" means Portability relating to Numbers allocated for use with Mobile Radio Telecommunication Services;

• “Non-Geographic Portability" means Portability relating to Numbers allocated in accordance with the rules for the allocation of Number Ranges other than Geographic Number Ranges as provided for in the National Numbering Conventions but excluding Portability relating to Numbers allocated for use with Mobile Radio Telecommunications Services and Radiopaging Services;

• “Number Portability" means a facility whereby Subscribers who so request can retain their number on a Fixed Public Telephone System and the integrated services digital network (ISDN), independent of the organisation providing the service at the Network Termination Point of a Subscriber at a specific location in the case of Geographic Portability or at any location in the case of Non-Geographic Portability;

• “Paging Portability" means Portability relating to Numbers allocated for use with Radiopaging Services;

• “Portability" means any facility which may be provided by the Licensee to an Operator or to a Service Provider enabling any Subscriber who requests Number Portability to continue to be provided with any telecommunication service by reference to the same Number irrespective of the identity of the person providing such a service;

• “Radiopaging Service" means telecommunication services consisting in the conveyance of Messages by means of Wireless Telegraphy where every message, apart from simple acknowledgement, is ultimately transmitted from a Station for Wireless Telegraphy comprised in the Applicable Systems run by the Licensee to a Station for Wireless Telegraphy or Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus that is not comprised in those Applicable Systems;

• “Recipient Operator" is an Operator or Service Provider to whom customer number(s) are in the process of being, or have been passed or ported from a Donor Operator;

• “System Set-up Costs" means costs of the Donor Operator incurred—

  (a)

  in the course of making network and system modifications, configuration and reconfiguration, including adapting or replacing software;

  (b)

  in the course of testing functionality within the Applicable System and in conjunction with any Recipient Operator’s systems;

  anywhere within the licensed area thereby establishing the technical and administrative capability to provide Portability.