Local number portability for mobility management

A method for facilitating call communications, the method comprising:

• generating, at a switching component of a telecommunications network, a number portability (NP) request based on a call of an originating device to a destination device;
• receiving, at a management component, the request or a response to the request;
• and
• facilitating, at the management component, return to the switching component of a location routing number (LRN) for a visited mobile switching center (V-MSC) that serves the destination device, by the management component:
• generating a Send Routing Info for Location Services (SRI for LCS) message;
• sending the SRI for LCS message to a home location register (HLR) to retrieve an address for the V-MSC, the SRI for LCS message being used to retrieve the V-MSC address without needing to trigger a subsequent query by the HLR to the V-MSC;
• receiving, in reply to the SRI for LCS message, the V-MSC address from the HLR;
• and
• translating the V-MSC address into a V-MSC LRN based upon a lookup table in the management component.