<html><body><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>I was surprised when this happened to me during our first porting exercise. </div><div><br></div><div>From what I understand, there is a routing table of numbers, which tell a switch where to send a call.</div><div><br></div><div>But there is also a local routing table, or list of physical termination points, can't remember, on a local CO which over ride a call being sent out into the cloud to be routed accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>When this happens, everyone who is not on the PBX that the number originally existed on will be routed properly. This means, company B has done their job. Everyone who is on the PBX that the number originally existed on will be routed to the old destination. This means, company A did NOT finish the porting properly, by pointing the numbers they were supposed to port into the cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, who's responsibility is it to push company A to finish their job? I think it still has to be company B. </div><div><br></div><div>Carriers hate porting numbers. And they do very little to make it a smooth process.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<br>Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<br>University of Guelph<br><div><br></div>519‐824‐4120 Ext 56354<br>lelio@uoguelph.ca<br>www.uoguelph.ca/ccs<br>Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<br>Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Ed Leatherman" <ealeatherman@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Cisco VOIP" <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 24, 2016 8:03:23 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[cisco-voip] Porting numbers between carriers<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>Is anyone familiar with the process of porting telephone numbers between carriers?</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>However, callers on local POTS lines with Carrier A are still reaching us via our existing PRI with Carrier A. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Aside from me riding Carrier B every day to figure it out, what magic is involved behind the scenes here? I miss BGP.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Ed Leatherman<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>