In response to requests for clarification from the market on how the numbers of the NNP may be used by transnational entities to which the respective rights were not allocated, and in respect of enforcement actions carried out by this Authority, on 8 June 2008, ICP-ANACOM issued a clarification on the provision of electronic communications services with the use of geographic, nomadic or other types of numbers.
In this clarification ICP-ANACOM notes, among other things, that the numbers of the NNP may be allocated to customers/end-users by operators service providers with activity declarations issued by ICP-ANACOM for the provision of services which are consistent with these numbers.
Nevertheless, this Authority considered that the numbers of NNP can be "reserved" to access electronic communications services offered by operators service providers without activity declarations issued by ICP-ANACOM, if ownership of the traffic generated for these numbers represents a service whose place of provision is outside of Portugal.
In addition, it was further clarified that the allocation of rights to use numbers of the NNP remains subject to certain conditions, noting with respect to geographic numbers, the need to respect the use of each number in a single fixed location - the address of the subscriber - situated in the geographical area indicated by the digits of the number that have geographic significance.
