PIC Freeze

The "PIC Freeze" is an option with your LEC. The "PIC Freeze" ("Primary InterExchange Carrier Freeze") prevents you from someone else switching your long distance carrier without your explicit authorization with the LEC. When you change your long distance company you have to remove the "PIC Freeze" with your LEC. If you have a "PIC Freeze" on your lines, your application with the long distance company will be rejected when it reaches your LEC. After your phone line(s) has (have) been switched over to the new long distance service, it is recommended that you reinitiate the "PIC Freeze" with the LEC. No one else, except you (the owner of the phone line), can lift or place a "PIC Freeze" with your LEC.