CPN definition

CPN is as defined in 47 C.F.R. § 64.1600(c).
CPN. (“Calling Party Number”) means a Signaling System 7 “SS7” parameter whereby the ten (10) digit number of the calling Party is forwarded from the End Office.
CPN is a Common Channel Interoffice Signaling ("CCIS") parameter which refers to the number transmitted through a network identifying the calling party.

Examples of CPN in a sentence

  • For any remaining (up to 5%) calls without CPN information, the receiving Party shall bill the originating Party for such traffic at the Traffic Rate applicable to each relevant minute of traffic, in direct proportion to the minutes of use of calls passed with CPN information.

  • For any remaining (up to 5%) calls without CPN information, the receiving Party shall bill the originating Party for such traffic at applicable compensation rates for each relevant minute of traffic, as provided in Pricing Attachment and applicable Tariffs, in direct proportion to the minutes of use of calls passed with CPN information.

  • Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, the ChN is to be passed unaltered in SS7 signaling fields where it is different than CPN and ChN must not be populated with a number associated with an intermediate switch, platform, or gateway, or other number that designates anything other than a calling party’s charge number.

  • If the receiving Party lacks the capability, on an automated basis, to use CPN information to classify on an automated basis traffic delivered by the other Party as either Local Traffic or Toll Traffic, the originating Party will supply a PIU and PLU factor.

  • It is the responsibility of each Party to originate and transmit complete and unaltered calling party number (CPN) and Charge Number (CN), as received by an originating party.


More Definitions of CPN

CPN or “Calling Party Number” is a Common Channel Signaling (“CCS”) parameter which identifies the calling party’s telephone number.
CPN means a CCS parameter that identifies the calling party's telephone number.
CPN is a CCS parameter which refers to the number transmitted through a network identifying the calling party.
CPN is a Signaling System 7 (“SS7”) parameter whereby the ten (10) digit number of the calling party is forwarded from the End Office.
CPN means a common channel signalling parameter which refers to the number transmitted through the network identifying the calling party.
CPN. (“Calling Party Number”) means the ten (10) digit number of the calling Party.
CPN means called party number.