Proposed discontinuation of the Charge Control for Number Portability Standard Services

Customers' ability to retain a phone number(s), when transferring service to an alternative provider, is a key facilitator of competition between providers of communications services.

This statement concerns services relating to the provision of portability, namely the technical services which enable end users to retain a phone number after transferring service from one provider to another, which are purchased from the former provider by the new provider, not by the end user. The services include initial per line set-up of the facility which enables an end user to retain his number and subsequent conveyance of each call from the former provider to the new provider.