Local Number Portability Administration

08/31/07

     

 

Best Practices Document

Item Number 50
Topic: Porting in conjunction with Foreign Exchange (FX) Service
Date Logged 07/06/07
Date Modified  
Related Regulation / Document Ref

PIM 60.doc

Related Issue  
Reported to NANC?  
Recommended Change to Requirements?  
Submitted by LNPA-WG
Decisions / Recommendations
Regarding the attached PIM 60 and the porting scenario described within, the LNPA WG reached consensus at their May 2007 meeting that this is a legitimate porting scenario provided that each of the following caveats are met in providing service to the customer by the New Service Provider.

• The customer would like to receive calls to their number(s) at a location of theirs that is physically outside of the Rate Center associated with their number(s).

• The customer understands that these numbers must continue to be rated in accordance with the Rate Center currently associated with their number(s) and does not want them to take on the rating characteristics of the Rate Center of their new location.

• The New Service Provider already serves the Rate Center associated with the customer’s number(s) out of the same switch to which they want to port this customer's number(s).

• The New Service Provider switch that already serves the Rate Center of the customer’s number(s) has an existing POI at the ILEC's tandem over which calls to these numbers are routed. If this customer's number(s) are ported into the New Service Provider switch, they would be routed over the same POI, and then the New Service Provider would deliver the calls to the customer's premise that is located outside of the Rate Center associated with the customer’s Number(s).

• The New Service Provider offers a tariffed and/or publicly published foreign exchange (FX) service in accordance with regulatory requirements that would cover this situation. Calls to and from customers located in the Rate Center associated with these ported numbers and the customer served by the New Service Provider will be routed exactly the same whether the New Service Provider assigns the customer a phone number from its 1K block of numbers in that Rate Center or whether the New Service Provider ports the numbers. This customer will be served out of the New Service Provider’s tariffed and/or publicly published foreign exchange (FX) service offering in accordance with regulatory requirements.

• The LSR submitted by the New Service Provider reflects the customer’s original service location as recorded by the Old Service Provider.

   

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