Telecommunications Act
(TCA)

¹ OF­COM shall man­age the ad­dress­ing re­sources that must be man­aged at na­tion­al level. It shall en­sure that suf­fi­cient ad­dress­ing re­sources are avail­able; in do­ing so it shall take ac­count of tech­nic­al de­vel­op­ments and in­ter­na­tion­al har­mon­isa­tion.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify which ad­dress­ing re­sources OF­COM must man­age.

³ It may pre­scribe a man­dat­ory al­tern­at­ive dis­pute res­ol­u­tion pro­ced­ure between the hold­ers of ad­dress­ing re­sources and third parties. It shall reg­u­late the pro­ced­ure, its con­sequences and its ef­fects on the pro­ced­ure un­der civil law, par­tic­u­larly the sus­pen­sion of the peri­od of lim­it­a­tion and the bur­den of proof. The right of hold­ers of ad­dress­ing re­sources and third parties to bring civil ac­tions is re­served.

⁴ No one has the right to a spe­cif­ic ad­dress­ing re­source. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may per­mit ex­cep­tions.

⁵ Pro­viders of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices shall en­sure num­ber port­ab­il­ity.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue reg­u­la­tions on the man­age­ment of ad­dress­ing re­sources, and in par­tic­u­lar on:

a.

their al­loc­a­tion, use, block­ing, trans­fer and with­draw­al;

b.

the is­su­ing of num­ber­ing plans;

c.

the del­eg­a­tion of man­age­ment to third parties, the ter­min­a­tion of the del­eg­ated activ­ity and the su­per­vi­sion of the same;

d.

sub-al­loc­a­tion;

e.

num­ber port­ab­il­ity.