Local Number Portability Administration

08/20/07

     

 

Best Practices Document

Item Number 43
Topic: Alternative SPID field introduced in NANC 399
Date Logged 11/25/06
Date Modified  
Related Regulation / Document Ref

NANC-399-Ver_0_3.doc

Related Issue  
Reported to NANC?  
Recommended Change to Requirements?  
Submitted by LNPA-WG
Decisions / Recommendations
Reseller SPIDs, for use in the alternative SPID data element of an SV, are created in NPAC's network data only upon an NPAC User's request.  consistent with the historical use of an entity's OCN as the entity's NPAC SPID, the industry strongly encourages each reseller to obtain an OCN from NECA for use as an NPAC SPID.  This in turn allows the identity of a reseller associated with a ported number to be displayed as that number's "alternative SPID".  Notwithstanding this strong industry preference, an NPAC User can request that the NPAC assign a surrogate SPID to a reseller in NPAC's network data;  that surrogate SPID then could be used as the alternative SPID to identify the reseller associated with a ported number.  (Surrogate NPAC SPIDs are values that NECA does not assign as OCNs.  Currently these values are made up of the alphanumeric values X000 through X999).

   

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