[VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers

[Rob Hutton]

I beleive there is only one iLEC in NE Georgia that has changed names within the last several years.  I am told, legally, that they have to honor an off network port, and their refusal to do so would accelerate the complaint process.  I just have to have someone willing to submit the port...

On Wednesday 19 October 2011 17:35:37 Scott Berkman wrote:
> There is at least one rural iLEC in NE Georgia that is a PITA to work with.
> If nothing else, I've seen them require direct tandem trunking (to their
> tandem) or else they will not deliver calls to ported out TNs across the
> regular iLEC (ATT) tandem.
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> I've always been interested in the legality of this since my understanding
> of the FCC order is that it requires all LECs to allow for porting without
> any loss of functionality to the end user.
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> One option is of course to file a complaint with the FCC per the following
> link:
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> http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
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>                 -Scott
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> From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
> On Behalf Of Rob Hutton
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:51 PM
> To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org
> Subject: [VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers
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> We have a customer in Northeast Georgia that currently has their phone
> service through an ILEC who I have been told will not sign the sharing
> agreements with the underlying VOIP networks, and therefore no one that I
> can find has any rate centers in that area. Also, the VOIP carriers have not
> been willing to do a off network port request, which when refused would
> allow me to continue forward on a complaint with the regulatory bodies.
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> The underlying VOIP network companies have told me that they have Local
> Number Portability departments to work through this stuff, and I need to
> work with my higher level carriers to get a case opened with their LNP
> departments before they will talk to me. The higer level carriers are
> telling me they don't know what to do because they have never run into this
> before.
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> Does anyone have any experience working through this mess?
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> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Rob
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