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Local Number Portability enables customers in the United States to keep their telephone number when switching service providers.
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'''Alternate Number'''
Used in Interim Number Portability (INP), the caller's original telephone number which is call forwarded to the new carrier's telephone number. Also known as Call Forward Number.
'''GNP (Geographic Number Portability)'''
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A process by which a telephone number may be reassigned from one Local Exchange Carrier to another.
'''Migrate'''▼
The action to transfer an unlocked telephone number from the donor company to the recipient company.▼
'''Local Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) Database'''
The eight (8) regional Number Portability Administration Center Databases which contain current Service Provider switching specific information about TNs involved in porting activity.
'''LSMS (Local Service Management System) Database'''
The [[LSP (Local Service Provider)]] owned network database which holds down-loaded ported number information. The NPAC (Number Portability Administration Center) SMS (service management system) downloads information to the LSMS; the LSMS supplies porting data to the SCP (service control point) used for the routing of telephone calls.
▲'''Migrate'''
▲The action to transfer an unlocked telephone number from the donor company to the recipient company.
'''NPAC (Number Portability Administration Center)'''
Porting data is available throughout the U.S. from the NPAC database via IVR access. Throughout the 02-011 document referral to access porting data, does NOT mean IVR access.
'''Remote Call Forwarding'''
As utilized within Interim Number Portability, a permanent call forwarding feature that allows a call to one Directory Number to be automatically advanced to a Directory Number of another Local Exchange Carrier.
'''SCCP (Signaling Connection Control Part)'''
SCCP is the protocol used at the transport layer for TCAP-based services such as freephone (toll free service), calling card, local number portability, wireless roaming, and personal communication services (PCS). SCCP also provides the means by which an STP can perform global title translation (GTT), a procedure by which the destination signaling point and subsystem number (SSN) is determined from digits (i.e., the global title) present in the signaling message.
'''Unlock'''
The action required by a 9-1-1 Database Management System Provider, upon notification from a Donor Company, that makes the end user's telephone number record available for the Recipient Company to replace the customer details and Company ID.
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[https://www.nena.org/page/ResponseWireless911 NENA 56-001 Guidelines For Minimum Response to Wireless 9-1-1 Calls]
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