Pursuant to § 114 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 2021 (TKG 2021), the regulatory authority is responsible for the efficient administration of numbering plans, in particular for recording the use of allocated address elements.
Furthermore, pursuant to § 131 (3) TKG 2021, the regulatory authority is required to maintain a directory of numbers for value-added services, which includes the name and address of the provider of the value-added service. The regulatory authority shall publish this directory and provide information on its contents upon request.
As of 29.06.2022, the indication of usage (usage notifications) was integrated into the ZR-DB. With this integration, the regime of usage notifications valid until 29.06.2022 was replaced by a new one.
In order to monitor the usage periods specified in the KEM-V 2009 and the intended use of allocated numbers, as well as to ensure an objective and non-discriminatory allocation of numbers and an up-to-date directory of numbers for value-added services, communications network operators and/or communications service providers are required under Art. 15 Par. 5 KEM-V 2009 in conjunction with Art. 12 ZR-DBV to report the usage of the numbers they have allocated in the form requested by the regulatory authority and at the intervals specified in the ZR-DBV.
- The following applies: The usage status of numbers in the 118, 8xx and 9xx ranges must ALWAYS be kept up-to-date on a daily basis; a total status of active numbers in use in all other number ranges must be submitted via the ZR-DB at least once a year (by the deadline of 31 March), at the latest 14 days after the deadline, using the upload option provided. However, partial ranges of numbers which have been put into operation in the meantime can be notified as used at any time.
All information relevant to the usage notification (specification of usage notifications and a presentation on information events in May 2022) can be found here.