[VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers

[Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE]

This sounds very similar to something we've seen before.  Feel free to
contact me to look at specifics, but the basic gist of it is this:

 

ILECs don't have to interconnect with VOIP carriers.  Period.  They usually
do not do so.

ILECs do have to interconnect with CLECs.  However, smaller rural ILECs have
plenty of barriers that they erect to try to wear the CLEC down so they'll
give up before they succeed.  But in the end, they have to do it.

 

Once a CLEC is interconnected with the ILEC, they will have to port numbers
back and forth.  The CLEC can then serve the VOIP provider and provide the
service you seek.

 

The #1 factor here is economy of scale.  You've got to have enough business
in this ILEC territory to justify the cost and effort that the CLEC is going
to have to exert on your behalf.  If you've got 50 residential customers,
that isn't going to cut it.  I'd say a $5000.00 MRC to the CLEC is about the
bare minimum it would take to get us to do it again.  We have done it
before, and we're providing service in some small rural ILEC areas now in
exactly this fashion.

 

Regards,

 

Mike

 

Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE

AstroTel, Florida's Other Phone Company

820 First Street West

Bradenton, FL  34208

DIRECT: 941 256-9207

 

From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
On Behalf Of Rob Hutton
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:51 PM
To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org
Subject: [VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers

 

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.

 

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.

 

Does anyone have any experience working through this mess?

 

Thanks in advance for your help,

Rob

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