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Telinta, Inc., a global leader in cloud-based VoIP switching and billing solutions, and proleneä, an industry leader in Local Number Portability (LNP) solutions, today announced special promotions for VoIP service providers, helping them to query proleneä’s LNP data directly from Telinta’s hosted softswitch platform. LNP queries enable VoIP service providers to route calls more accurately based on the Location Routing Number (LRN), helping to reduce VoIP termination costs. When a phone number is ported from one carrier to another, a ten digit LRN is assigned to it. Telinta’s hosted softswitch queries proleneä’s LNP data, finds the LRN associated with a ported number, and routes the call to the carrier now serving that number. “proleneä enables Telinta customers to manage their VoIP termination costs on US calls by routing on the destination’s LRN rather than the dialed number,” said Gable Baldridge, Vice President of Product and Software Development, proleneä. “When termination prices vary…

Do you want to change your telecommunication service provider, but need to keep your current phone number? This process is called number portability, and defines the mechanism and procedures that allow you to switch from one phone network service provider to another in any Licensed Service Area (LSA), while maintaining your existing number. Number portability offers customers the right to exercise their choice in selecting a service provider and, at the same time, avoid the inconvenience of being allocated a new phone number. This important facility provides the customer with freedom-of-choice and, as a result, generates competition among service providers encouraging lower tariffs, improved services and enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) of the networks. It is important to note that the portability feature only concerns the phone number, and is not applicable to services. In this article we focus on the complete porting process from start to finish and, at…

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Telinta and proleneä Team Up to Serve VoIP Service Providers for LNP

Phone number porting – things you need to know when making the switch