Donor

The Carrier or Carriage Service Provider to which a Telephone Number has been allocated or transferred under the Numbering Plan (basically the original Carrier the number was allocated to from ACMA)

Loser

The Carrier or Carriage Service Provider from which a Telephone Number has been or is to be ported (basically the current carrier who is about to lose the number)

Gaining

The Carrier or Carriage Service Provider to which a Telephone Number has been or is to be ported (basically the carrier who is going to receive the number)

CCA

Call Collection Area – there is a total of 66 CCA’s in Australia

Reversal

The reinstatement of a Customer’s service with the Losing Carrier or Carriage Service Provider during the Reversal Period for Telephone Numbers Ported using the Simple/Cat A Process

Emergency Return

The re-establishment of a service, which can be in the form of either the Customer’s original service, or if that is not possible an alternative service. Emergency Return only applies to complex Ports and can only be within a certain time frame of the completion of the port

Pre Port Validation (PNV)

A regulatory form to allow the gaining carrier to request service number details from the losing carrier

PAF

Porting Authority Form 

SNA

Simple Notification Advice means advice contained within a Porting Notification Order which provides the details required for a Telephone Number to be Ported using the Cat-A (Simple) Process

CNA

Complex Notification Advice means an advice contained within a Porting Notification Order from the Gaining C/CSP to the Losing C/CSP which, provides the initial Porting details for each Telephone Number to be Ported using the Cat-C (Complex) process