The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has launched a public consultation on granting third parties’ access to certain information in the centralized database (CDB) used to ensure the number portability service.

The CDB, administrated by ANCOM, contains information on all the ported phone numbers, on the porting transactions processed and a complete set of data on the routing to ported numbers.

The consultation is addressed both to the electronic communications providers that currently have access to the CDB, but also to the entities potentially interested in acquiring access to the CDB as a third party and it comes in the context of the constant increase in the number of porting telephone numbers and of the innovative adjacent services development, but also following the Recommendation of the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT).