Summary: The rules and procedures for numbering provides the foundations for a consumer to receive a quality service, yet the Directions Paper gives very little consideration of consumer concerns. The full submission outlines:
- why ACCAN cannot support the direction of ‘broad-based numbering’ which will eventually merge currently separate number ranges, like mobile and geographic numbers, into one indistinguishable bundle of numbers.
- that the Numbering Plan needs to protect the untimed local call obligation
- that transferring detail from the Numbering Plan to industry managed codes and guidelines is unacceptable, as they lack the enforcement powers of the Numbering Plan.
- that the decision to move services from the 12 range of numbers to 19, 13 and 18 numbers will have a positive impact on consumers and needs to occur as soon as practically possible.
Submission to:Australian Communications and Media Authority
Status: Submitted
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