Telecommunications (Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Industry Standard 2020 (Cth)

Telecommunications (Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Industry Standard 2020

The Australian Communications and Media Authority makes the following Standard under subsection 125AA(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated: 27 February 2020

Nerida O'Loughlin

[signed]

Member

Chris Jose

[signed]

Member/General Manager

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This is the Telecommunications (Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Industry Standard 2020.

2 Commencement This industry standard commences on 30 April 2020.

3 Authority This industry standard is made under subsection 125AA(1) of the Act and in accordance with the Telecommunications (Industry Standard for Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Direction 2019.

4 Application For the purposes of subsection 125AA(1) of the Act:

(a) this industry standard applies to;

(i) the section of the telecommunications industry consisting of mobile carriage service providers who supply or arrange for the supply of public mobile telecommunications services; and

(ii) every port of a mobile service number; and (b) the content of this industry standard deals with placing additional identity verification requirements on mobile carriage service providers to meet the objectives described in section 5.

Note 1: The pre-porting identity verification obligations in this industry standard are in addition to customer authorisation requirements in the Industry Code - Mobile Number Portability Code – C570:2009 and in the Customer Authorisation Industry Guideline (G651:2017).

Note 2: Section 116A of the Act provides that neither an industry code nor an industry standard derogates from a requirement made by or under the Privacy Act 1988.