Number Portability

Proven, comprehensive solutions to help manage all your number portability challenges

We are the leading global supplier of number portability solutions, with the most number portability deployments worldwide and a comprehensive suite of solutions to accelerate number portability implementation and streamline operations for both fixed and mobile service providers. In the U.S. alone, more than 95% of all mobile number portability transactions exchanged between Tier 1 service providers are processed by Telcordia.

From training and consulting services to software solution and managed services, we address your key business concerns on number portability by:

Reducing the time and costs of introducing and managing number portability
Facilitating on-time compliance with numbering mandates and directives
Realizing significant competitive benefits

Our holistic approach to implement a nationwide number portability mandate includes both fixed or local number portability (LNP) and mobile/wireless number portability (MNP/WNP) and offers:

A centralized number portability clearinghouse
Value-added provisioning and real-time querying number portability solutions that integrate the selected national clearinghouse with a service provider's operations and networks
Solutions that accelerate cost-effective implementation of number portability nationwide
Numbering solutions within each provider's environment that pave the way to open competition with innovative services

Our Number Portability offers include:

Number Portability Planning and Readiness Advisory Services: Assisting regulators as well as fixed and mobile service providers to plan and implement numbering mandates worldwide.
Number Portability Clearinghouse: Automating ordering, provisioning, notification and administration for porting numbers between service providers in a country.
Number Portability Gateway: Providing a single, operator-based control point for mobile and fixed-line operators to manage the complex interfaces, message processing, and transaction data associated with number portability requirements.
Service Management Gateway for Wireless Number Portability (WNP): Automating the number porting process while seamlessly integrating with existing Operations Support Systems (OSSs). (Specifically for the North American market)
Advanced Service Management System for Local Number Portability (Specifically for the North American market.): Providing port-corrected routing information to network elements in support of both Local and Wireless Number Portability (LNP/WNP).
Numbering Seminars: Addressing numbering strategies and number portability implementation. Regulator and operator training led by industry recognized experts.
Numbering Advisory Services: Helping regulators develop rules and guidelines for structuring, allocating and reserving numbers for all types of national telecommunications services within a given country, and methods and procedures for an equitable assignment and administration of numbering resources.
Number Management System: A web-based system for regulators to assign, track and administer numbering resources to operators in a mechanized fashion.