Interim Number Portability definition

Interim Number Portability or “INP” means the use of existing and available call routing, forwarding, and addressing capabilities (e.g. remote call forwarding) to enable a Customer to receive Telephone Exchange Service provided by any Local Exchange Carrier operating within the exchange area with which the Customer’s telephone number(s) is associated, without having to change the telephone number presently assigned to the Customer and regardless of whether the Customer’s chosen Local Exchange Carrier is the carrier that originally assigned the number to the Customer.

Interim Number Portability or "INP" is a method of number portability, such as Remote Call Forwarding ("RCF") or any other comparable and technically feasible arrangement, that allows one Party to port telephone numbers from its network to the other Party's network with as little impairment of quality, reliability and convenience to the customer as possible, but does not comply with the Local Number Portability performance criteria set forth in 47 C.F.R. Section 52.23(a). "InterLATA Traffic" describes Telecommunications between a point located in a Local Access and Transport Area ("LATA") and a point located outside such area.

Interim Number Portability or “INP” is As Described in the Attachment 5 of this Agreement.

Examples of Interim Number Portability in a sentence

• The Parties shall provide Interim Number Portability (INP) in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the FCC and state regulatory bodies, the Parties respective company procedures, and as set forth in this Section 15.4. The Parties shall provide INP on a reciprocal basis.

• The Parties shall provide Interim Number Portability (“INP”) in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the FCC and state regulatory bodies, the Parties respective company procedures, and as set forth in this Section 14.4. The Parties shall provide INP on a reciprocal basis.

• Within thirty (30) days from the effective date of this Agreement, the Parties agree to have met and developed joint planning and forecasting responsibilities which are applicable to Local Services, including Features, UNEs, Interim Number Portability (INP), Interconnection Services, Collocation, Poles, Conduits and Rights-of-Way (ROW).

• Each Party shall comply with the methodology (including recordkeeping) established by the FCC or the Commission with respect to such Party's recovery in a competitively neutral manner of its costs to provide Interim Number Portability.

• Interim Number Portability (INP) shall be provided to the extent technical capabilities allow, by a Sprint directed Remote Call Forwarding (RCF).

More Definitions of Interim Number Portability

Interim Number Portability means one or more mechanisms, such as remote call forwarding or route indexing, by which a local exchange customer at a particular location may change the customer’s local service provider without any change in the customer’s telephone number, while experiencing as little loss of functionality as is feasible using available technology.

Interim Number Portability means one or more mechanisms by which a local exchange customer at a particular location may change the customer’s local exchange services provider without any change in the local exchange customer’s telephone number, while experiencing as little loss of functionality as is feasible using available technology.

Interim Number Portability or INP is a method of number portability, such as Remote Call Forwarding (“RCF”) as described in this Agreement.

Interim Number Portability or "INP" refers to the temporary means by which BellSouth allows customers to retain their existing telephone numbers when changing from one local exchange carrier to another. This service provides transparent delivery of Telephone Number Portability ("TNP") capabilities, from a customer standpoint in terms of call completion, and from a carrier standpoint in terms of compensation, through the use of call routing, forwarding, and addressing capabilities. The interim nature of these arrangements result from the fact that their performance and cost cannot meet or sustain end-user customer or co-carrier expectations. Standards for permanent number portability will be set by regulatory stricture, and both Parties agree to implementation of permanent number portability at the earliest possible point in time.

Interim Number Portability have the meaning stated in Attachment 8, Section 2.

Interim Number Portability means the service provided in lieu of true number portability. Interim solutions available from the ILEC, which include remote call forwarding and direct inward dialing, enable customers to change providers without the appearance of changing telephone numbers [ , ] but rely on the incumbent's network to process some or all calls.

Interim Number Portability. ("INP") means the delivery of LNP capabilities, from a customer standpoint in terms of call completion, with as little impairment of functioning, quality, reliability, and convenience as possible and from a carrier standpoint, through the use of existing and available call routing, forwarding, and addressing capabilities.