Mobile number portability was not, up to a few months ago, in the immediate plans of the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) but is now a priority issue, as Jamaica prepares to apply to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for a new batch of codes.
Jamaica was assigned eight million usable numbers in 1997, but is now down to one million, according to Maurice Charvis, OUR deputy director general, due largely to the growth in the mobile market.
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