<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top">Shameless or not, it's on my mind. Some follow ups (which may be interesting to others, which is why I'm not PMing you... <div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068">-how do you not become a single point of failure yourself? (I assume your just updating the resporg database) </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068">-who would I pay my long distance usage charges to? (I assume whatever carrier I'm pointing to) <br>-any obvious pros and cons? </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068">-can I as a manufacturing company with, let's say, 200 or so toll free numbersnumbers be resporg? (I assume economics are relevant here) </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068">-if you list 4 of your competitors to show you're a community minded guy, I'll PM you and ask for your sales rep to give me a
pitch. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.66569260857068">This is interesting, and for the others I promise not to drag this out on the group. <br><p><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.4126398582011461">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></p> <hr><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#7e7d80;"><b>From</b>:"Chris Lowe via Outages" <outages@outages.org><br><b>Date</b>:Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:27 PM<br><b>Subject</b>:Re: [outages] Outages Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7<br><br></div> <div id="msgSandbox_AG92w0MAABYKVejJSAz4UFDhS5k_TEXT" class="msgSandbox" style="padding: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 1.2em; word-wrap: break-word;">The only true way to mitigate is to have the ability to switch the traffic<br>to an alternate carrier using the
toll-free mgmt system (sms800). Youčd<br>also have to keep your routing up to date on both carriers (which is<br>usually a PIA) unless you are using the carrier as simple transport, and<br>your company is doing all the routing/heavy lifting. If youčre not<br>already a RespOrg, switching the carrier on your number(s) is not an<br>option for you. There are companies that offer this service (managing<br>toll-free numbers independently), Custom Toll-Free (shameless promotion as<br>they are a subsidiary of my company), and ATL Communications are two such<br>companies.<br><br><br>-Chris<br><br><br><br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:14:06 -0700<br>From: Jim Witherell <<a ymailto="mailto:jawitherell@yahoo.com" href="javascript:return">jawitherell@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: "<a ymailto="mailto:Outages@outages.org" href="javascript:return">Outages@outages.org</a>" <<a ymailto="mailto:Outages@outages.org"
href="javascript:return">Outages@outages.org</a>><br>Cc: outages <<a ymailto="mailto:outages@outages.org" href="javascript:return">outages@outages.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [outages] Anybody else having trouble with Centurylink<br> toll-free #s?<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:1441318446.40296.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com" href="javascript:return">1441318446.40296.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web163405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Sooooo... While we're all waiting.. Anyone have some research references<br>on toll free outage mitigation or 'carrier redundancy"?<br><br><br>My experience is the carrier is the single point of failure and you are<br>absolutely 100% reliant on them. Ways to mitigate that?<br><br><br>Whenever asked (and I just was), I say out hands are tied. I think that's<br>true. Agree??<br><br><br>Sent
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