Number Portability (NP). The in-place long-term method of providing Number Portability (NP) using the LRN method.
Number Portability (NP). The ability of users of Telecommunications Services to retain, at the same location, existing telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one Telecommunications Carrier to another.
Number Portability (NP). 1.2.1 Each Party will provide Local Number Portability and obtain End User Customer authorization in accordance with the Act, and applicable FCC rules, regulations and orders
Number Portability (NP). Each Party will provide Local Number Portability and obtain End User authorization in accordance with the Act, and applicable FCC rules, regulations and orders as amended from time to time. Carrier shall provide NP to CenturyLink under no less favorable terms and conditions as when CenturyLink provides such services to Carrier. The Act requires allowing End Users to change local service providers and retain the same telephone number(s) within the serving Rate Center utilizing the portability method as defined by the FCC. The Parties recognize that the Act and the applicable FCC rules, regulations and orders limit porting to carriers having facilities or numbering resources in the same Rate Center, or to service providers who have partnered with a wireline carrier for numbering resources where the partnering carrier has facilities or numbering resources in the same Rate Center, and do not mandate location portability and the Parties will not submit orders for such non- mandated types of portability.
Number Portability (NP). 1.2.1 Each Party will provide Number Portability (“NP”) in accordance with the Act, and applicable FCC rules, regulations and orders.
Number Portability (NP). The ability of users of CMRS Services to retain, at the same location, existing Telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one Telecommunications Carrier to another. NXX, NXX Code, Central Office Code or CO Code: The three-digit switch entity indicator that is defined by the "D", "E", and "F" digits of a ten-digit telephone number within the NANP. Each NXX Code contains 10,000 station numbers. Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF): An industry committee functioning under the auspices of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Operations Support Systems (OSS): The pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, maintenance and repair, and billing functions support information. Parity: Means subject to the availability, development and implementation of necessary industry standard Electronic Interfaces, the provision by CenturyLink of services or functionality under this Agreement to Carrier, including provisioning and repair, at least equal in quality to those offered to CenturyLink, its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality unless otherwise set forth in Applicable Law. Until the implementation of necessary Electronic Interfaces, CenturyLink shall provide such services or functionality on a non-discriminatory basis to Carrier as it provides to its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality.
Number Portability (NP). 3.1 The Parties acknowledge that, notwithstanding the FCC’s First Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket 95-116, they disagree on the form of NP that should be adopted and prescribed by the FCC, and accordingly hereby reserve their rights to advocate their respective positions before legislative, judicial, and regulatory bodies, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement. To the extent that this Agreement includes provisions regarding the implementation of the Location Routing Number (“LRN”) method of NP, such provisions shall apply only if it is ordered that LRN shall be deployed in Maryland, and only to the extent required by Applicable Law, and the presence of such provisions in this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of BA’s position that LRN should not be deployed in Maryland. If another NP methodology is adopted for Maryland, the Parties shall promptly modify any provisions of this Agreement that refer to or assume the implementation of LRN to replace it with such other methodology.
Number Portability (NP). The ability of users of Telecommunications Services to retain, at the same location, existing Telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one Telecommunications Carrier to another. NXX, NXX Code, Central Office Code or CO Code: The three-digit switch entity indicator that is defined by the "D", "E", and "F" digits of a ten-digit telephone number within the NANP. Each NXX Code contains 10,000 station numbers. Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF): An industry committee functioning under the auspices of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Operations Support Systems (OSS): The pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, maintenance and repair, and billing functions supp information.
Number Portability (NP). The ability of users of Telecommunications Services to retain, at the same location, existing Telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one Telecommunications Carrier to another. NXX, NXX Code, Central Office Code or CO Code: The three-digit switch entity indicator that is defined by the "D", "E", and "F" digits of a ten-digit telephone number within the NANP. Each NXX Code contains 10,000 station numbers. Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF): An industry committee functioning under the auspices of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Operations Support Systems (OSS): The pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, information. Parity: Means subject to the availability, development and implementation of necessary industry standard Electronic Interfaces, the provision by CenturyLink of services or functionality under this Agreement to CLEC, including provisioning and repair, at least equal in quality to those offered to CenturyLink, its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality unless otherwise set forth in Applicable Law. Until the implementation of necessary Electronic Interfaces, CenturyLink shall provide such services or functionality on a non-discriminatory basis to CLEC as it provides to its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality.
Number Portability (NP). The ability of users of Telecommunications Services to retain, at the same location, existing Telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one Telecommunications Carrier to another. NXX, NXX Code, Central Office Code or CO Code: The three-digit switch entity indicator that is defined by the "D", "E", and "F" digits of a ten-digit telephone number within the NANP. Each NXX Code contains 10,000 station numbers. Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF): An industry committee functioning under the auspices of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Operations Support Systems (OSS): The pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, maintenance and repair, and billing functions supported by CenturyLink’s databases and information. Parity: Means subject to the availability, development and implementation of necessary industry standard Electronic Interfaces, the provision by CenturyLink of services or functionality under this Agreement to CLEC, including provisioning and repair, at least equal in quality to those offered to CenturyLink, its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality unless otherwise set forth in Applicable Law. Until the implementation of necessary Electronic Interfaces, CenturyLink shall provide such services or functionality on a non-discriminatory basis to CLEC as it provides to its Affiliates or any other entity that obtains such services or functionality.
