Number Portability

Managing the challenges of number portability

Competitors in our industry are constantly battling for market share, investors, innovation, and customer loyalty. As part of their success strategy, operators must offer convenience, choice, and personalization. Those who embrace competition understand this and the need to harness these Elements of Success, every day and with every decision.

We know that sometimes the telecom industry needs a little assistance to enable their customers to reap the full benefits of competition. Successfully positioning regulators, competitive operators, vendors, and customers on the same playing field, and toward the same goal, often requires a neutral party with deep domain knowledge, careful planning, innovative approaches, and respect in the industry. We have years of experience solving multi-stakeholder problems, including technology standards, generic requirements, and interconnection, for the benefit of the customer.

Number Portability is one example of our vendor-neutral, multi-stakeholder solutions. It provides a great look into the elements required to make competition work to the benefit of all. More than a decade ago, we introduced portability to the industry and we continue to lead the market with an end-to-end solution available worldwide. Successfully facilitating number portability requires an industry reach, like ours, that covers strategy, policies, requirements, architectures, highly-scalable systems and repositories, flow-through automation, and deployment support. Operators are finding our Number Portability can be a key element in their achieving success.