[cisco-voip] Porting numbers between carriers

[Ed Leatherman]

Circling back for posterity - SIP provider actually had not notified the
LEC that the numbers had been setup, so the LEC (imo) legitimately wouldn't
drop the numbers out of their routing. I had to badger / escalate with the
SIP provider enough to get someone from their porting group on the phone.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Adam <cisco at adman.net> wrote:

> This is like when someone puts a static route in somewhere in the network
> and then forgets about it, then wonders why BGP isn't getting them there. I
> normally find this happens in scenarios where someone manually configured
> something outside of the provider's provisioning tools and it was never
> documented.
>
> -Adam
>
>
> On Friday, June 24, 2016, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Is anyone familiar with the process of porting telephone numbers between
>> carriers?
>>
>> I've recently ported 40 numbers from "Carrier A" to "Carrier B". Carrier
>> B now has the numbers in their system and most callers to those numbers are
>> getting to us via our SIP trunk with Carrier B.
>>
>> However, callers on local POTS lines with Carrier A are still reaching us
>> via our existing PRI with Carrier A.
>>
>> Carrier B says the porting is complete; Carrier A says B has not
>> completed the process and that is why the numbers are still active with
>> them.
>>
>> Aside from me riding Carrier B every day to figure it out, what magic is
>> involved behind the scenes here? I miss BGP.
>>
>> --
>> Ed Leatherman
>>
>


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Ed Leatherman
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