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‘‘SEC. 715. NUMBER PORTABILITY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A provider of voice services has 
the duty to provide, to the extent technically feasible, num-
ber portability in accordance with requirements prescribed 
by the Commission. 
‘‘(b) STANDARDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Within 270 days after the 
date of enactment of the Same Number Act of 2007, 
to facilitate consumer choice among voice service 
providers the Commission shall establish number 
portability performance standards for voice service 
providers that, at a minimum— 
‘‘(A) require voice service providers to port 
numbers in an expeditious and efficient manner 
that is technically feasible; 
‘‘(B) institute a uniform porting process in 
which the porting-out provider may require only 
the minimum information necessary to validate 
the requesting customer and complete the port; 
‘‘(C) prohibit the porting-out provider from 
deactivating and removing a number from its 
switch for at least forty-eight (48) hours after 
the scheduled port request is completed; and 
‘‘(D) encourage the reasonable automation 
of the porting process. 
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‘‘(2) FLEXIBILITY.—In adopting performance 
standards under paragraph (1), the Commission 
may— 
‘‘(A) take into account differences between 
simple and complex ports; and 
‘‘(B) grant a waiver of such standards for 
any provider or class of providers that can show 
that such standards would result in unreason-
able compliance costs for that provider or class, 
except that any such waiver shall be of limited 
duration. 
‘‘(3) PUBLIC
ACCESS
TO
TIMEFRAMES.—The 
Commission shall make available to the public on its 
Internet website any standard timeframes estab-
lished by the Commission under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(c) PORTING REPORTING.— 
‘‘(1) PROVIDERS.—Beginning 1 year after the 
date on which the Commission issues a final rule 
under subsection (b) establishing number portability 
performance standards for voice service providers, a 
voice service provider shall submit a report each year 
to the Commission on its number portability activity 
during the preceding 12 months, including a state-
ment of the number of ports it failed to complete 
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within the time required by the standards, and an 
explanation of the reason for such failures. 
‘‘(2) COMMISSION.—Beginning 1 year after the 
date on which the Commission issues the final rule 
under subsection (b), the Commission shall submit a 
report each year to the Senate Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation and the House 
of Representatives Committee on Energy and Com-
merce on the effectiveness and efficiency of the num-
ber portability performance standards for voice serv-
ice providers established under this section. 
‘‘(3) SUNSET.—The requirements of this sub-
section shall cease to apply 60 months after the date 
on which the Commission issues such final rule. 
‘‘(d) NUMBERING ADMINISTRATION.— 
‘‘(1) COMMISSION AUTHORITY AND JURISDIC-
TION.—The Commission shall designate 1 or more 
impartial entities to administer telecommunications 
and voice service numbering and to ensure that 
numbers are available on an equitable basis. The 
Commission has exclusive jurisdiction of those por-
tions of the North American Numbering Plan that 
pertain to the United States. Nothing in this sub-
section precludes the Commission from delegating to 
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State Commission or other entities all or a portion 
of such jurisdiction. 
‘‘(2) COSTS.—The costs of establishing num-
bering administration arrangements and number 
portability shall be borne by all voice service pro-
viders on a competitively neutral basis, as deter-
mined by the Commission. 
‘‘(3) 
UNIVERSAL
EMERGENCY
TELEPHONE 
NUMBER.—The Commission and any agency or enti-
ty to which the Commission has delegated authority 
under section 715(e) shall designate 9–1–1 as the 
universal emergency telephone number within the 
United States for reporting an emergency to appro-
priate authorities and requesting assistance. The 
designation shall apply to both wireline and wireless 
telephone service. In making the designation, the 
Commission (and any such agency or entity) shall 
provide appropriate transition periods for areas in 
which 9–1–1 is not in use as an emergency tele-
phone number on the date of enactment of the Wire-
less Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999. 
‘‘(e) VOICE SERVICE DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘voice service’ means— 
‘‘(1) a telecommunications service; or 
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‘‘(2) any service that is not a telecommuni-
cations service, but that otherwise is an IP-enabled 
voice service as defined in section 9.3 of the Com-
mission’s regulations (47 C.F.R. 9.3), as those regu-
lations may be amended by the Commission from 
time to time.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 251 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 251) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking subsection (b)(2) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of subsection (b) 
as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively; and 
(2) by striking subsection (e) and redesignating 
subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) as subsections (e), 
(f), (g), and (h), respectively. 
Æ 
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