Number Portability definition

Number Portability is As Defined in the Act.
Number Portability means the ability of end 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 means 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 carrier to another;

Examples of Number Portability in a sentence

  • When End User Customers switch from CenturyLink to Spectrotel, or to Spectrotel from any other reseller, and if they do not change their physical service address to an address served by a different Rate Center, such End User Customers shall be permitted to retain their current telephone numbers if they so desire and if such number retention is not prohibited by Applicable Law or regulations for number administration and Number Portability (NP).

  • CenturyLink is not liable for mistakes in CenturyLink’s signaling networks (including but not limited to signaling links and Signaling Transfer Points (STPs) and call-related databases (including but not limited to the Line Information Database (LIDB), Toll Free Calling database, Local Number Portability database, Advanced Intelligent Network databases, Calling Name database (CNAM), 911/E911 databases, and OS/DA databases).

  • Where an AT&T Customer has two numbers for a line due to the implementation of interim Local Number Portability, the second number shall be considered part of the White pages basic listing.


More Definitions of Number Portability

Number Portability means the ability of end-users of public telecommunications services to retain, at the same location, existing telephone numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching between like suppliers of public telecommunications services;
Number Portability. : means a service enabling a Subscriber to transfer his contract with the Licensee to another Licensed Operator within the Bailiwick of Jersey and retain the same number allocated to that Subscriber by the Licensee;
Number Portability means the ability of end-users of public telecommunications services to retain, at the same location, the same telephone numbers when switching between the same category of suppliers of public telecommunications services;
Number Portability means as defined in the Act and FCC rules.
Number Portability means a facility whereby Subscribers who so request can retain their Telephone Number on a Public Electronic Communications Network, independently of the person providing the service at the Network Termination Point of a Subscriber provided that such retention of a Telephone Number is in accordance with the National Telephone Numbering Plan;
Number Portability. (“NP”) means 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 means the ability of subscribers who so request to retain the same telephone numbers, at the same location in the case of a fixed line, without impairment of quality, reliability or convenience when switching between the same category of suppliers of public telecommunications services;