Numbering Advisory Committee (NAC)

What is it?

The NAC was established in March 1991 by AUSTEL, a predecessor of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), and meets on average four times a year to assist the ACA manage Australia's numbering resource.

The ACMA seeks to work closely with representatives of users of numbers and the telecommunications industry, in formulating and administering numbering policy. The NAC provides one forum through which this occurs.

Members

Members of the NAC include user groups-including those representing residential telephone users, small business and corporate users-carriage service providers (including the three largest carriers, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone), and a number of industry associations and government representatives.

Objectives

Under its terms of reference, the NAC provides advice to the ACMA with the aim of improving benefits to suppliers and users of carriage services, to facilitate competition and in particular:

• to assist in the development, variation and administration of the Numbering Plan for more efficient use by carriage service providers; and
• for the specification and allocation of numbers, including:
  • conditions on the allocation of numbers;
  • complex applications for the allocation of numbers;
  • the portability of numbers;
  • the distribution and administration of annual numbering charges; and
  • the allocation of charges.

More information on the NAC is available here.

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• Last modified: 6 February 2008, 12:26pm