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Getting Ready for Wireless Number Portability: Operations and Interconnection Considerations

Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. The Clock is Ticking!
2. Choosing the Right WNP Solution
3. Product Solution
4. Service-Bureau Solution
5. Interconnection: Completing the WNP Puzzle
6. Conclusion
Self-Test
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1. Phase I of WNP requires wireless carriers to provide service-provider portability.
a. True
b. False
2. What are the core functions that a WNP solution must support?
a. Inter-carrier communications
b. Generating Revenues
c. Service-provider portability
d. All of the above
3. The role of the SOA interface to the NPACs is to ________________.
a. Support inter-carrier communications
b. Exchange and process information for porting numbers
c. Provide customer care and support
d. All of the above
4. Key factors that influence the selection of a WNP solution include _______________.
a. A volume of porting transactions
b. A degree of automation in a carrier’s operations environment
c. Availability of system development and administration resources
d. All of the above
5. Wireless carriers should not be concerned about interconnecting with wireline as well as other wireless carriers.
a. True
b. False
6. An automated WNP solution that supports the flow-through porting of numbers will enable wireless carriers to _______________________.
a. Port numbers from wireline carriers
b. Meet the 2½-hour window for porting numbers
c. Generate porting data and management reports quickly
d. All of the above
7. Desirable features for a WNP product solution to interface OSSs include __________.
a. Supporting different interfaces to existing or new OSSs
b. Supporting changes in business flows for minimal disruption
c. Routing notifications from the NPAC to flow back to the appropriate OSS
d. All of the above
8. The difference between a service bureau and a product solution for WNP is that _______________.
a. Services are hosted and operated by a third party
b. It requires wireless carriers to acquire software and hardware platforms
c. It has higher start-up costs
d. All of the above
9. A service bureau could provide centralized assistance to manually process the “fallout” associated with fax transmissions from small carriers to larger carriers.
a. True
b. False
10. The primary role of an interconnection clearinghouse in WNP is to serve as a centralized hub for establishing and managing connections among wireless carriers.
a. True
b. False

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