(4) A number shall be reserved for an unspecified term.
(5) The reservation of a number terminates upon expiry of the numbering authorisation, revocation of the
numbering authorisation or cancellation of the reservation.
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(6) If a subscriber changes a provider of telephone or mobile telephone services and retains his or her current
number, the reservation of the number in respect of the current provider of telephone or mobile telephone
services ends and the reservation of the number transfers to the provider of telephone or mobile telephone
services with whom the subscriber enters into a subscription contract which sets out as a condition of the
contract that the current number is retained.
§ 39. Organisation of auction
(1) If several persons have concurrently submitted applications for numbering authorisations for the use of the
same short number or identification code and the applicants cannot be granted joint use of the short number or
identification code, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall organise an auction for
the issue of the numbering authorisation. Applications which have arrived on the same date are deemed to be
applications that have arrived concurrently.
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(2) The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority shall inform the applicants of an auction in
writing within five working days after the receipt of the applications and the applicants are allowed to submit
their tenders within five working days. The winner of the auction shall be granted a numbering authorisation
within 20 working days after the submission of the applications.
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(3) The procedure for the organisation of an auction specified in § 19 of this Act and in this section shall be
established by the minister in charge of the policy sector.
Chapter 5
SECTOR-SPECIFIC REGULATION OF
MARKETS OF COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
§ 40. Purpose of sector-specific regulation of markets of communications services
(1) The purpose of the sector-specific regulation of markets of communications services (hereinafter market) is
to ensure the pluralism of communications service providers, their equal and non-discriminatory treatment by
encouraging competition, and the quality and availability to end-users of the provided services.
(2) [Repealed – RT I 2006, 25, 187 – entry into force 02.06.2006]
(3) The sector-specific regulation of markets must be technologically neutral.
(4) The sector-specific regulation of markets shall be conducted by the Consumer Protection and Technical
Regulatory Authority. The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority must take account of the
general objectives provided for in § 134 of this Act upon performance of sector-specific acts and application of
sector-specific measures provided for in this Chapter.
[RT I 2007, 66, 408 – entry into force 01.01.2008]
§ 41. Sector-specific acts and measures
(1) For the sector-specific regulation of markets, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority
has the right to perform the following acts:
[RT I 2007, 66, 408 – entry into force 01.01.2008]
1) define markets pursuant to § 43 of this Act;
2) conduct market analyses on the defined markets pursuant to §§ 44–442of this Act;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
3) designate undertakings with significant market power pursuant to § 45 of this Act.
(2) For the sector-specific regulation of markets, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority
has the right to apply the following measures:
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1) impose obligations on an undertaking with significant market power pursuant to § 46 of this Act and amend
the obligations of an undertaking with significant market power pursuant to the provisions of subsections 4 and
6 of § 49 of this Act;
2) impose obligations on a communications undertaking and release a communications undertaking from
obligations in connection with access and interconnection pursuant to §§ 63–632of this Act.
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