---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 52.36"
title: "47"
number: "52.36"
heading: "Standard data fields for simple port order processing."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/52.36"
---

# §52.36. Standard data fields for simple port order processing.

- (a) A telecommunications carrier may require only the data described in paragraphs [(b)](#b) and [(c)](#c) of this section to accomplish a simple port order request from an end user customer's new telecommunication's carrier.
- (b) **Required standard data fields.**
  - (1) Ported telephone number;
  - (2) Account number;
  - (3) Zip code;
  - (4) Company code;
  - (5) New network service provider;
  - (6) Desired due date;
  - (7) Purchase order number;
  - (8) Version;
  - (9) Number portability direction indicator;
  - (10) Customer carrier name abbreviation;
  - (11) Requisition type and status;
  - (12) Activity;
  - (13) Telephone number of initiator; and
  - (14) **Agency authority status.**
- (c) **Optional standard data field.** The Passcode field shall be optional unless the passcode has been requested and assigned by the end user.

## Notes

### Amendments

[75 FR 35315, June 22, 2010, as amended at 80 FR 66480, Oct. 29, 2015]

### Source

Source: 61 FR 38637, July 25, 1996, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 61 FR 47353, Sept. 6, 1996.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 201-205, 207-209, 218, 225-227, 227b-1, 251-252, 271, 303, 332, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 38637, July 25, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[75 FR 35315, June 22, 2010, as amended at 80 FR 66480, Oct. 29, 2015]