After you check whether you can port phone numbers to a Lumen® Local Inbound service, use Control Center to create an order to port those phone numbers from another carrier to Lumen. Once your port order is ready, you can also trigger the port in Control Center.
Need more phone numbers? You can also reserve phone numbers for Local Inbound service.
Use these guidelines to understand the port-in SLA intervals. This guide is to clarify the port-in SLA intervals so that customers don’t need to open tickets to our LNP Help Desk team unless the LNP Status Report shows the port-in order in CSR exceeded or LSR exceeded status.
Here are the average SLAs (service level agreements) for each donor carrier so that you have a good porting estimate to give your customer. These porting intervals are based on submitting a clean order and don't included extended timeframes to correct rejections.
E-bonded carriers: (Qwest, BellSouth, SBC/AT&T, Verizon, Ameritech, Frontier, SWBell, Bandwidth, Level 3 Sonus) | The SLAs are pretty quick because of automation, though of course any reject would cause the order to fall out of automation and be processed manually as with any other manual-based carrier. CSR phase: 5 minutes LSR phase: 1–24 hrs Pending Activation phase: 3 business days Total port time: 3–4 business days |
Manual-based carriers: For the other 200+ carriers we port from daily, the intervals are a little longer. This includes porting phone numbers into the legacy Level 3 from our Lumen-acquired company networks (Broadwing/Focal, ICG, Adelphia/Telcove, Global Crossing, TW Telecom, CenturyLink/Embarq) because we have to use that mechanism to update and synchronize all the systems rather than our internal port process where the phone numbers are already on the Level 3 Sonus network. | CSR phase: 2 business days or less (up to 5 business days for a few carriers) LSR phase: 2 business days or less (up to 5 business days for a few carriers) Pending Activation phase: 3 business days Total port time: 4–8 business days
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Internal ports: Porting phone numbers from one customer/local service provider to another on our Sonus network. | CSR phase: 60 seconds (requested by you in Control Center) LSR phase: 1 hour to 1 business day Pending Activation phase: 2 business days Total port time: 3 business days |
Acquired company networks: Porting port phone numbers to our Sonus network from our Lumen-acquired company networks (Broadwing/Focal, ICG, Adelphia/Telcove, Global Crossing, TW Telecom), until we are fully integrated we have to use the manual-based carrier port-in mechanism to update and synchronize all the systems rather than our internal port process. | CSR phase: 2 business days LSR phase: 2 business days Pending Activation phase: 3 business days Total port time: 4–8 business days |
Migration project ports: Porting in large or complex orders not available using the portal, the interval varies due to quantity. | 50–750 phone numbers: 15 business days 750–10,000 phone numbers: 20 business days For an internal project on our Sonus network of ≥1,000 phone numbers: 10 business days If you have over 10,000 phone numbers, we may need to divide the project into two days as we have an activation limit of 10,000 phone numbers per day per customer. |
Simple ports: Porting in single, residential phone numbers with no features. | AM submittal: If you submit the port order before 1:00 pm (local time of the phone number), the same day is considered day zero. The CRD and FOC will be scheduled for the next business day. PM submittal: If you submit the port order after 1:00 pm (local time zone of the phone number), day zero is pushed to next morning and gets a CRD and FOC for the following business day. Total port time: 24 hours Note: Manual intervention required. After submitting the port order, you must contact our LNP Help Desk to request 1-day ports after validating that the phone number qualifies as a simple port. |
Mobile/cell ports: Porting in a single, residential or business phone number. | AM submittal: If you submit the port order before 1:00 pm (local time of the phone number), the same day is considered day zero. The CRD and FOC will be scheduled for the next business day. PM submittal: If you submit the port order after 1:00 pm (local time zone of the phone number), day zero is pushed to next morning and gets a CRD and FOC for the following business day. Total port time: 48 hours Note: Bulk order form and submittal required with Social Security number or PIN/password. |
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