Common use of INTERIM NUMBER PORTABILITY Clause in Contracts

INTERIM NUMBER PORTABILITY. (a) Until Number Portability is implemented on an industry-wide basis pursuant to an order or regulation issued by the FCC or the Department, the Parties agree to provide to each other Interim Number Portability as defined in the Act, ("INP") through remote call forwarding, route indexing, and full NXX code migration as set forth below or through any other technical solution which may, at the option of the Parties, be mutually agreed to by the Parties. (b) Upon implementation of Number Portability pursuant to an FCC or Department regulation, both Parties agree to conform and provide such Number Portability in accordance with said regulation. Once Number Portability is implemented, either Party may withdraw, at any time and at its sole discretion, its INP offerings, subject to reasonable advance written notice to the other Party. (c) In the event a Customer of one Party ("Party A") elects to become a Customer of the other Party ("Party B") and such Customer continues to reside within the same central office boundary and Rate Center, and elects to utilize the original telephone number(s) corresponding to the Exchange Service(s) it previously received from Party A in conjunction with the Exchange Service(s) it will now receive from Party B: (i) Party B shall, upon receipt from such Customer of the type of customer authorization required by the Department or the FCC (together with an associated service order which, among other things, indicates that Party B has obtained the required customer authorization permitting assignment of the number to Party B), place an order with Party A to implement an arrangement whereby all calls to the original telephone number(s) will be forwarded to Party B over the appropriate Local/IntraLATA trunks for purposes of forwarding the call. (ii) Party B shall become the customer of record for the original Party A telephone numbers subject to the INP arrangements provided that Party B continues to use the INP service for the use of the end user customer originally assigned such number, and in all respects shall be treated as the customer as to such number as if Party B has been assigned such number. Party A shall use its reasonable efforts to consolidate into as few billing statements as possible all collect, calling card, and third-number billed calls associated with those numbers, with sub-account detail by retained number. The parties shall work cooperatively to enable Party A to provide such billing statement to Party B in an agreed-upon format via either electronic file transfer, daily magnetic tape, or monthly magnetic tape. (iii) Party A will update its Line Information Database ("LIDB") listings for retained numbers, as directed by Party B, and cancel calling cards associated with those forwarded numbers. (iv) Within two (2) business days of receiving notification from the new Local Services carrier or the Customer terminating service with Party B, Party B shall notify Party A of the Customer's termination of service with Party B. Party A will cancel the INP arrangements for such Customer's telephone number(s). In the event Party A changes its telephone numbers, it may discontinue providing INP service as to such numbers.