Edit / LNP - allows subscribers to keep their existing phone number when changing service providers, geographic locations, or service plans. It is often a mandated part of competitive deregulation. LNP is among the largest and most complex projects ever undertaken in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Local number portability was introduced to Local exchange carriers (LECS) in North America with the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Act, which mandated compliance with Federal Communications Commision (FCC) recommendations governing the porting of subscriber numbers. In Europe, LNP has been driven by "directives" laid out by the Commission of the European Union. See Also: PSTN LEC NANP
The process by which an end user can retain the same telephone number regardless of which local service provider he/she chooses. The ability for phone numbers to be moved between local service providers is accomplished by shared access to a numbering database. Also known as Location Portability.
The ability to change phone companies without having to change phone numbers.
The ability of subscribers to switch local or wireless carriers and still retain the same phone number, as they can now with long-distance carriers. Wireless carriers don't have to offer LNP until June 1999 and want the deadline postponed.
(LNP) Charge: A charge that allows local telephone companies to recover certain costs of providing LNP to its customer. Provides residential and business telephone customers with the ability to retain, at the same location, their existing local telephone numbers when switching from one service provider to another. The fixed LNP charge may appear on a customer's bill for five years from the date the charge was first assessed to the customer.
Local Number Portability (LNP) is the process that enables you to change your telecommunication service provider, but keep your phone number.
The ability for customers to retain their telephone numbers when they change local service provider.
Allows a consumer to keep his/her phone number when changing carriers or changing locations within a local area. LNP is required by federal law and includes both landline and wireless services.
What this means is that you can sign up for the new service that you have chosen, and keep a number that you already have on an existing account! Starting 5/24/04, the FCC is requiring wireless carriers to allow customers to carry existing phone numbers over from wireless carriers to wireless carriers, and from land line carriers to wireless carriers within the same local area.
Local Number Portability (LNP) allows you to transfer your current telephone number with your local telephone company, to use as your Verizon VoiceWing telephone number, once your Verizon VoiceWing Broadband Phone Service order is completed and the service is installed and activated.
The ability to change phone companies and keep an existing phone number.
The ability of an end user to retain its telephone number when the end-user changes LECs while remaining in the same physical location.
A system that allows local telephone numbers to be transferred to competitive local exchange carriers. This allows the subscriber to change local phone companies without experiencing a change in phone numbers.
A service that enables you to keep your own telephone number when you move to a new location.
The ability of subscribers to switch local or wireless carriers and still retain the same phone number, as they can now with long-distance carriers. Wireless carriers do not have to offer LNP until March 2002 and seek further postponement of this deadline.
Local number portability (LNP) is the ability to take an existing fixed-line telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) and reassign it to another LEC, while referring to the same physical connection. FMNP (full mobile number portability) is the equivalent term for mobile phones. In the United States, mobile number portability is referred to simply as WNP or WLNP (Wireless LNP).