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Local Number Portability

What is LNP?


What is LNP (Local Number Portability) or Number Portability
Answer: LNP or Number portability Porting a DID number means that you can leave your current carrier, and move your number to another carrier, that has network in that same area code.

Suppose one of your customers have a number with Vonage, or Verizon, or AT&T and you want to port it over to virtualphoneline.com , You can very much do so.


Legal Overview:
Local Number Portability, or LNP, is an FCC regulation that is slowly but surely enabling end users to take their phone number with them when they switch phone service providers. Regulations about LNP don't yet apply to all phone companies.

DownSide:
Some Companies may still NOT allow you to port the number, or charge you a contract breaking fee etc, to port the number away.

One risk is that number might get ported in but you can't get it back out, at which point you're stuck. At the current time AT&T VOIP won't take over any VSP (VOIP Service Provider) numbers. If you're a Vonage customer and want to move, your only choice is a new number. The safest thing to do is start with a number from the old incumbent phone company ILEC, then port it to the VoIP provider. Should you need to switch VoIP providers you have a better chance at keeping your number.

If you want to pop the hood on how number portability works you should read about ENUM.

What is Generally needed?

Generally porting a number involves
  • Filling out a form
  • Copy of an old bill
  • Call Logs of old Number

How Much time does it take ?
In United States it then takes up to 30 days; sometimes it's quick though. in Pakistan it takes 4 days.
Suggestion: Don't cancel the old service till afterward.

Companies that offer LNP?

3StarsNet Local Number Portability in Belgium of any geo and non geographical number .
Virtual Phone Line 25$ per number fee. 7$ a month after that.
DIDX 15$ per number - Can do Canada, US - First 5 number for FREE
InPhonex.com $19.95 per number setup fee.
Premier Voice LNP $12.50 per port and starting at $2.50 a month.
Digital Network Innovations Port is Free, Monthly costs: first DID is $10AU, $4AU for additional.
Preface (Australia) LNP available for monthly cost.
VirPhone Global Telecommunications Company Free Port, monthly rental $10 or included free with monthly plan.


See Also

  • IP Communications — IP Communications SIP Trunks, IP800 and IPDID Services. FREE DIDs (no purchase necessary, no obligation)



Created by bhyde, Last modification by rehan on Fri 25 of Apr, 2008 [14:06 UTC]

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by Tara Nesbitt on Monday 23 of April, 2007 [14:37:48 UTC]

Yes, InPhonex offers LNP

by Tara Nesbitt on Monday 23 of April, 2007 [14:32:40 UTC]
InPhonex offers US & Canada LNP and a trade-in program for old VoIP devices. They also help Vonage customers keep their phone number when they switch to InPhonex. See http://www.inphonex.com/services/replace-vonage.php.

inphonex offering LNP ??

by Howard Robbins Chapman on Friday 13 of April, 2007 [18:02:38 UTC]
   Today I emailed inphonex customer svc and they told me they will start to port numbers in within a week or two.

    Has anyone else heard this? If this is true i will no longer be using them as my backup, they will be my main provider.
This will also help me with all the Vonage people that ask where they should move to.

We can help with US LNP

by fonemantx on Saturday 07 of January, 2006 [22:30:04 UTC]
We provide LNP in most of the United States. We have electronic bonding with SBC/AT&T, BellSouth, Verizon, and Sprint. info@i3net.us

by Harald Wolf on Saturday 29 of October, 2005 [14:22:17 UTC]
This is no problem in Austria. There is in fact no difference (legal or practically) porting your number from one PSTN-Carrier to another or to a Voip-Provider.
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this is a local US problem

by Anonymous on Saturday 25 of September, 2004 [17:08:20 UTC]
in .ch and .de is it possible due to stronger local or EU regulations, as well as in most of the other EU countries

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