Number Portability Planning and Readiness Advisory Services

Field-tested experience in helping carriers world-wide to meet regional regulatory requirements. The Telcordia number portability team comes equipped with a broad set of service capabilities to assist wireline and wireless carriers in addressing new mandates for International Number Portability.

Our comprehensive capabilities provide strategic, operational, and managed service support. We enable the best Number Portability solution for your business and can help you:

• Reduce the time, cost and risk of number portability implementation
• Understand and comply with government mandates for number portability
• Deploy a fully integrated, optimized and economical Number Portability solution
• Gain sustained competitive advantage

Help with every phase of number portability design and deployment

Planning and Readiness Advisory Services - high level framework services that range from definition of number portability requirements, number portability administration and service order processing architectures, and inter-network communications policies, to cost and recovery methodologies. Our expertise in regulatory strategy extends from developing directives and deployment schedules, to designing a country's numbering and dialing policies.

Number Portability Build Services - at the center of these services is the Telcordia® Number Portability Clearinghouse (NPC), a centralized system that interconnects fixed and/or mobile operators to allow for fast, easy porting of numbers. The NPC controls the flow of messages between operators, and contains a reference database that is a single repository of all ported numbers.

Number Portability Operational Services - our experienced network professionals cost-effectively manage and maintain the NPC in partnership with a local operator. Our staff maintains data center facilities, overseeing system administration, hardware support, security, disaster recovery, Help Desk and other support requirements.