[cisco-voip] Verizon DCS

[Jonathan Charles]

Threats to change carriers have worked in the past...

I have been hearing horror stories like this constantly over the past
year or so... did some regulation of the telephone companies expire
recently?



Jonathan

On Nov 12, 2007 2:53 PM, Bill Simon <bills at psu.edu> wrote:
> True for wireless providers but not for land circuits.
>
> We cannot port numbers between central offices here, even Verizon to
> Verizon.
>
> They simply don't have the ability to do it.  If you know how, please
> tell me the magic words to say to the carrier to have it done.
>
>
> Jonathan Charles wrote:
> > I had ATT tell a customer that the other day too...
> >
> > It is a load of crap.
> >
> > Any DID can be ported anywhere.
> >
> >
> > J
> >
> > On Nov 9, 2007 11:15 AM, Carter, Bill <bcarter at sentinel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What is Verizon DCS service.  Customer is getting screwed over, had to push
> >> back cutover date.  Customer is replacing 24 analog lines with a T1.
> >> Verizon delivered a PRI, but said they could not port the numbers to it
> >> because the PRI came out of a different CO than the local lines.
> >>
> >> So Verizon's solution is DCS service, but I can't decode the marketing
> >> babble.
>