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Mobile giants in MNP crisis talks

By Byron Kaye, ZDNet Australia
September 26, 2001
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Mobile-giants-in-MNP-crisis-talks/0,130061791,120260729,00.htm

Australia's five biggest mobile carriers and key regulatory bodies will attend an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss number porting glitches encountered late yesterday.

The meeting - mediated by the Australian Communications Industry Forum at the federal government Department of Communications, IT and the Arts in Canberra - will be attended by representatives from Telstra, Cable and Wireless Optus, Vodafone, AAPT and Orange, ACIF CEO Johanna Plante told ZDNet Australia.

The meeting would also be attended by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Australian Communications Authority, Plante said.

The ACCC and ACA were being sought for comment.

Plante said the source of the glitches, reported by Optus late yesterday afternoon, was currently unknown. However, she said all carriers had been cooperative in finding the cause.

-It's all technical stuff. It's not commercial," Plante said.

-There obviously are some problems out there. Things aren't going smoothly in some issues."

Mobile number portability, introduced yesterday, allows customers to change carriers without changing numbers.

Plante said the meeting was called after Optus reported some trans-carrier technical glitches associated with porting mobile numbers and -everyone was trying to figure out what was actually going on".