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Local number portability allows a number to be moved to a different carrier or a different wire center within the same rate center. [4] A landline provider typically will not allow a cross-town move to a different rate center under the same number at standard rates; possible alternatives include expensive foreign exchange service or a nomadic class of service such as voice over IP or a mobile ...
Map of LATAs in the US. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation.It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the ...
In North America, the term wire center may be used to denote a central office location, indicating a facility that provides a telephone with a dial tone. [1] Telecommunication carriers also define rate centers for business and billing purposes, which in large cities, might encompass clusters of central offices to specify geographic locations ...
In the following states and regions, the primary local carrier is not an RBOC: Lumen Technologies, in addition to its role as the RBOC in the areas of 14 states gained from its acquisition of Qwest, Lumen serves other rural, suburban, and smaller city local exchanges, as well as most of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, covering a total of 16 states.
Local number portability (LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability (FMNP) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number to another carrier ("service provider portability"), move it to another location ("geographic portability"), or ...
CenturyTel of the Gem State, Inc. (Idaho, Nevada) - formerly owned by Pacific Telecom; CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall, LLC - portions formerly part of Wisconsin Bell; CenturyTel of the Southwest, Inc. [2] - five rate centers in New Mexico [3] Spectra Communications Group, LLC - formerly part of GTE Midwest
Frontier Communications owns local telephone operating companies consisting of companies it has owned under its previous name Citizens Communications Company, companies it acquired from Global Crossing, and companies it acquired from Verizon Communications which are grouped under its subsidiary Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings.
Local exchange carrier (LEC) is a regulatory term in telecommunications for the local telephone company.. In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long-distance (interexchange carrier, or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs).