ACMA warns that without swift action Australians will have to add more digits to their mobile numbers after 2017. Picture: File Source: Supplied
- Authority will add more digits to mobile numbers
- Telcos could delay this with better management
- Could be the last of the 04 era of numbers
AUSTRALIA is at risk of running out of 04 mobile phone numbers by 2017 the communications watchdog warned today.
The telecommunications industry needs to work together swiftly to find more efficient ways of allocating existing numbers The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said this morning in a new report.
The report reviewed the telecommunications number plan and found that at the current rate of use mobile phone numbers were running out.
"If consumption of mobile numbers continues at its current rate there is a potential expiration of the existing range by 2017," the manager of regulatory futures at ACMA, Dominic Byrne, said in a briefing this morning, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.
"If there is any suggestion that we are running short of mobile numbers, then we will specify more numbers."
ACMA said telco providers could delay the inevitable by using their existing allocations of numbers more efficiently.
"Fundamental changes in networks and technologies, as well as profound changes in consumer behaviour and services, have put significant pressure on the regulatory arrangements for telephone numbers,? said ACMA Chairman, Mr Chapman.
"The managed approach to evolution outlined in this paper provides industry and consumers with greater certainty as we face the accelerating convergence of communications and media."
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