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4 edits | VoIP Port-In (LNP) Lookups, NXX Registrants, Rate Centres .
This topic will be a work in progress.
First, a quick GLOSSARY of terms used in the title of this thread :
VoIP Port-In (LNP) Lookups :
LNP stands for 'Local Number Portability'.
When you wish to Port-In a phone number which you already have (and you are likely also shopping for a new phone provider), you need to do a lookup for each provider which you are considering to host the number and provide your services.
If you are considering porting in a number to a provider (VoIP or otherwise), it would be prudent to do these lookups BEFORE beginning to conduct ANY business with that particular provider.
If a number can be transferred, it is said to be 'Portable'.
'Porting-In' is the process of the NEW or WINNING provider communicating with the OLD or LOSING provider ON YOUR BEHALF, to ask them to give up your number to the NEW provider.
Due to rules set down by the FCC and CRTC, LNP has for a number of years been REQUIRED of all Land Line and Cellular phone providers, but not necessarily of VoIP providers.
Still, VoIPP's have chosen to offer some (though an inconsistent) degree of LNP, and hence the need to do 'Lookups' as descrbed here.
NEW Phone Numbers : If you are NOT wishing to keep an existing phone number, there are also lookups for where (how close to your geographical location) a NEW phone number can be offered.
The list may be similar, but is not necessarily the completely same list of places as those which qualify for 'Porting-In' an existing number to each provider.
NXX Registrants :
An NXX is simply a phone exchange - an organized group of phone numbers.
It's the middle group of digits in a 10 digit phone number.
There can be one or more NXX's in a rate centre or municipality, and there are ways to determine which provider is registered to each NXX.
The registrant can also be a retail provider and directly offer phone service, and/or they can offer their NXX's wholesale to other providers who then resell it with THEIR services.
Rate Centres :
A rate centre is a city or other municipality, and is used as the basis for establishing whether phone charges are long distance or local, for traditional land lines, for cell phones, and sometimes for VoIP phone service.
A rate centre can have multiple NXX's.
List of VoIP Providers and their LNP Lookup Pages :
PX Eliezer began a thread last year :
»Updated List: VoIP Local Number Portability (LNP) Checking
Here are more choices (including updates on some of PX's) :
Note : Some of these are links for NEW number coverage.
Often, Porting In will include the same (and occasionally more or less choices of) 'Rate Centres' (places) as where a given VoIPP can offer you a new number.
Acanac_ca
»www.acanac.ca/Availability.htm
AcroVoice_ca
»www.acrovoice.ca/content/check_service
eMail address is optional on lookup form
BabyTel_ca
»www.babytel.ca/HomePhone/Coverag···iew.html
Call With Us_com (No Porting-In, but lots of Rate Centres for NEW numbers, and LOW PAYG rates for Outgoing Calls)
»www.callwithus.com/getdid
Electronic Box_net (Canadian)
»www.electronicbox.net/en/quebec/···ony.html
Free Phone Line_ca
»www.freephoneline.ca/cityListing
IrisTel_ca
»www.iristel.ca/local-number-portability/
Magic Jack_com
»www.magicjack.com/9/areacodes.asp
Also look in FAQ for Porting
Primus TalkBroadband
»www.primustel.ca/en/residential/···lity.htm
Their VoIP section is orphaned from main page left hand menues, but can be reached thru the SITE MAP at bottom of main page.
Skype_com
»www.skype.com
Browse or Search for LNP page.
Vonage_ca (Canada)
»www.vonage.ca/
LNP Lookup is on Front Page
Vonage_com (USA)
»www.vonage.com/features.php?feature=lnp
Note : Canadian LNP Lookups will FAIL on their US site !
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kudos:3 | Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Checks, NXX Owners, Rate Centre Coverage Hmm. I notice it's not alphabetical, which may make it harder to read than it has to be....  </conflictofinterest>
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Still easier than Gooogling and browsing each site yerself for their LNP pages.
AND, the above linked thread is locked from new posts due to age.
Now I/we can add some more links to the current thread. |
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4 edits | reply to Davesnothere
NXX Registrants or 'Owners' .
Like THESE ones :
An onsite lookup will tell you who is the registrant of an NXX in Canada.
»www.cnac.ca/
That is a step in determining whether and which phone providers (VoIP or other) have a presence in a particular rate centre (city), and so which one may be able to offer new numbers there, or might be able to port in YOUR existing number to there.
»www.cnac.ca/data/ac613.htm is a direct link to a sample area code, where you can do an in-browser search for either a certain city or carrier, to figure what matches with what.
Here, you can find out whether a US or Canadian NXX is supposed to be portable or not, from the perspective of its registrant. »www.npac.com/
This one seems to report whether a call between two specified rate centres would be a LOCAL call - Does it apply to other carriers ? - Not Sure....
»www.iristel.ca/unlimited-extende···g-guide/ |
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kudos:3 | Re: NXX 'Owners' Here's a useful resource, which has compiled a lot of the data from CNAC and NPAC, making it easier to digest: »www.localcallingguide.com/
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Thanks.
I had that bookmarked too but not examined much yet. |
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Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Checks, NXX Owners, Rate Centre Coverage Hey, as the original list was posted by me, at least send me some butter tarts or Beavertails. |
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1 edit | said by PX Eliezer:Hey, as the original list was posted by me, at least send me some butter tarts or Beavertails.
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Or Tim-Bits ? - The TekSavvy call centre crowd seems to LIVE on those, and from some remarks I have read, they are lobbying to have them promoted to become an Official Food Group ! 
Actually never had a Beavertail yet - I know what they are, though.
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| Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Checks, NXX Owners, Rate Center Coverage said by Davesnothere:Actually never had a Beavertail yet - I know what they are, though.
Maybe you'll get a chance this winter.
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On a different note, Call With Us does not offer DID's in the USA. |
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Hmmm...
At the link I posted, I can get an Ack for Hackensack Ack Ack Ack.... |
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2 edits | reply to Davesnothere
Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Lookups, NXX Registrants, Rate Centres .
The OP has been updated today.
- More providers, more specific links and/or instructions, and a GLOSSARY.
Soon the OP will be locked, so if you have any providers to add, who have a proper LNP lookup on their site, or corrections to my data, please post ASAP and I will add to or change my OP. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Anveo .
This looks interesting :
»Mega 'Cheaper Than Dirt' Worldwide Sale @ Anveo US DID-$0.99 |
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Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Lookups, NXX Registrants, Rate Centres :
What if I register one of those dirt-cheap DIDs. Would I still have all the ownership rights such as to transfer it away in the future? I'm thinking about one from Callcentric.
BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."? |
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3 edits | said by ConstantineM::
What if I register one of those dirt-cheap DIDs. Would I still have all the ownership rights such as to transfer it away in the future? I'm thinking about one from Callcentric.
BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."?
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Thanks for visiting my thread.
Each VoIPP has different policies about Porting OUT, so best ask them directly, and specifically mention that class of DID, as it has other limitations vs the regular ones, if you mean those at CC, such as less channels, and not available in as many rate centres, IIRC.
And I use a '.' for the same purpose that you used a ':' in YOUR above post. 
Actually, you are only the 2nd person to ask me since I began doing it.
My answer to the other askee was that it is less noticable than a '-', which was the character which I had used previously. |
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4 edits | reply to Davesnothere
Rate Centres (Improved Definition) .
A rate centre is a city or other municipality, and is used as the basis for establishing whether phone charges are long distance or local, for traditional land lines, for cell phones, and sometimes for VoIP phone service.
A rate centre can have multiple NXX's.
[The above paragraphs are from the OP of the current thread, and the below are based on another post I made elsewhere in the meantime.]
Following a long-standing Bell Canada tradition, rate centres do not necessarily follow the same geographical boundaries (nor necessarily have the same name) as municipalities, especially in densely populated areas.
In such densely populated areas, chances are that your number CAN be ported, and/or that you can have a new one issued for your rate centre by a VoIPP, as long as you first figure out the name of your rate centre.
Another place to look up portability is thru a VoIPP's form where you ENTER your number rather than looking up (and guessing) your rate centre on a browse list.
[Direct links to some such pages are in in the OP of the current thread.] |
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Re: VoIP Port-In (LNP) Lookups, NXX Registrants, Rate Centres
Additional unique links may be in this more recent thread :
»what exactly is CRTC ruling on MNP and LNP?
(as well as some dupes) |
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said by ConstantineM:BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."?
It's a poster's trick to place a blank line between the "quote" being responded to and the response itself.
said by ConstantineM::
BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."?
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It's a poster's trick to place a blank line between the "quote" being responded to and the response itself. |
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1 edit | said by N9MD:
said by ConstantineM::
BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."?
. It's a poster's trick to place a blank line between the "quote" being responded to and the response itself.
How lazy. IMO, you should use <br> when you want to leave a blank line. |
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3 edits | said by Stewart:said by N9MD:
said by ConstantineM:BTW, Davesnothere, why do you start each one of your posts with a "."?
. It's a poster's trick to place a blank line between the "quote" being responded to and the response itself. How lazy. IMO, you should use <br> when you want to leave a blank line.
Sometime after starting this thread, I discovered the method which I now use, (including in my current post, and which works on THIS message board, but may not on others) by examining another DSLR poster's post for its coding.
It was from that same poster that I also found a code for doing a 'Bullet', but I forgot it again.
In any case, the objective is improved legibility.
EDITs : I just noticed that YOUR '<br>' seems to force TWO carriage returns (blank lines), but MY '& nbsp' only forces ONE, which appeals better to my mind's eye.
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| said by Davesnothere:I just noticed that YOUR '<br>' seems to force TWO carriage returns (blank lines), but MY '& nbsp' only forces ONE, which appeals better to my mind's eye.
My bad; I had a newline after the <br>.
BTW, be aware that a non-breaking space should be coded as (note the semicolon). Though Firefox, Chrome and IE all render correctly without it, some devices or browsers might not. |
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