Talk:Local number portability

Merge questions

I have tried to reformat and resection the sections in this page to be more coherent. Note that many paragraphs were unsigned. jnestorius^(talk) 01:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

WLNP (Wireless Local Number Portability) should be a separate page rather than merging with LNP (Local Number Portability). Vasanisalim 19:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)salim

I would suggest leaving Mobil and LNP articles seperate. Having read over this article I will probably add several elements to it to better show porting in the US and Canada. It may be advantageous to seperate porting around the world with Porting in the US. This article is missing some basic concepts in porting, types of ports and the technical section is very tricky without taking the time to break down telephone in general.

I suggest leaving MNP and LNP/FNP/GNP seperate too as these are implemented in various different ways across the globe and can not necessarily be the same or sometimes even remotely similar.

As I understand LNP in the USA, LNP is the term used and mobile or wireless and wired fall under it. So, instead of merging into mobile, it would seem mobile should be merged into this. And, either separate sections for each country or the title changed to LNP USA.

Local number portability has a separate article, but Telephone number portability redirects to Local number portability, as does FMNP. There is overlap of info, and the split of info does not correspond to the two names. There should be an article with the name "Telephone number portability", even if it is just a very short overview/definition which hands off to a number of linked subarticles. Whether you decide to split the topic by landline/cellular or by America/Europe/Japan or by something else or by a combination of the above, the important thing is that people don't go to the wrong article and get lost or confused because they can't find the right information. jnestorius^(talk) 01:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

... Add comment: In the section on Technical Issues I believe that the term STP should be replaced by SCP. As far as I understand the Signaling System #7, STP is a layer 3 transit point for messages destinated to other nodes, and the generic name for intelligent network servers is SCP. Thus messages SSP sends are either to SCP (in case of IN queries) or to other SSP's (when normal call routing is performed) Eliezerd (talk) 18:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC) eliezerd

Mobile Number Portability

'This article is about telephone number portability on landlines. For telephone number portability on mobile phones, see Mobile number portability.'

... then it goes on to discuss changing numbers on mobile phones. --82.70.156.254 (talk) 13:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Country specifics

LNP in Indonesia

Indonesia doesn't seems to launch LNP in 2007. The greatest problem is no investor who wants to invest a large amount of money into the project. Another consideration is about the careless of 20 percents of mobile phone users in Indonesia with this feature.Asni Harismi 02:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Its known as "mobile number portability" in the UK. And "Fixed Number portabilty" not local number portability. I think these terms will be more familiar throughout Europe.

United States

Porting Authorisation Code

The original definition does not properly define LNP and how it works in the US. If it was written to describe LNP in a specific country, that country needs to be identified as part of this definition.

I have edited the article for specificity, clarity, and just plain good, sound information regarding LNP in the US. There is much more detail I could have included, but considering how complex LNP infrastructure can be, as the original author quite accurately points out, I think it more effective to try to keep it short while providing at least a minimum of technical detail.

I also argue against merging LNP to "Porting Authorisation Code" since this, too, is misleading about the nature of portability and how it works in the US. Since 1997, all ported numbers and number pool blocks in the US have been ported using an "LRN" or "Location Routing Number." In more than 5 years of LNP Administration, I've never used the term "Porting Authorisation Code" nor have I heard it used at any of the organizations and governing bodies regarding LNP including the FCC, ATIS, OBF, the LNPA and LNPA-WG, NANPA, NANC or NPAC. Merging these two will only serve to confuse the concept even further than it already is. While this concept may be accurate for another country, it will only serve to misinform those curious about LNP in countries outside the one for which the article has been written.

I can see the "Porting Authorisation Code" article being referenced by this one, but certainly not merged with it since it is unique to what I assume is the UK, where porting is obviously different than it is in the US and probably elsewhere in the world, as well.

Referenced

I have added references to sites with authentic documentation to support the vast majority of procedural and regulatory statements throughout this article in regards to LNP in the US. I don't believe it qualifies as "unreferenced" any longer and would like to propose removing the erroneous warning at the top of the page. WirelessMike 15:00, 15 August 2007 (CST)

VoiP

This article needs a VoiP paragraph…a lot of people may not realize if they switch their phone service to an Internet-based service I *don't believe* the law covers them in they ever move or switch again. Historian932 (talk) 03:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Colombia

Colombia congress has announced to start the discussion on LNP on 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.24.6.168 (talk) 20:12, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

provider unavailable

If the service provider suddenly goes out of business, ceases to function -- is there any way to port out the trapped phone number?-71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:35, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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