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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 20. Public Utilities And Telecommunications
Agency 5. State Corporation Commission
Chapter 429. Rules Governing Compensation, Numbering, Interconnection, and Other Local Inter-Carrier Matters
12/30/2024

20VAC5-429-40. Number portability and number assignment.

A. Consumers shall have the ability to retain the same telephone number if they remain in the same geographic area where the NXX is normally provided, regardless of their chosen local exchange carrier.

B. True number portability shall be made available when technically and economically feasible.

C. Interim number portability arrangements shall be utilized until true number portability is available.

D. To the extent feasible, the ILEC shall provide new entrants with reservations for a reasonably sufficient block of numbers for their use.

E. LECs shall not charge for porting a customer's telephone number when the customer changes local exchange carriers.

Statutory Authority

§§ 12.1-13 and 56-265.4:4 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 17, eff. April 10, 2003.

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