[VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers

[Peter Rad.]

LNP does not apply to all ILEC's.
Just as the TA96 mainly applied to RBOC's.
The RLEC's are a special case and don't have to sign ICA or LNP agreements.


On 10/19/2011 5:35 PM, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> One option is of course to file a complaint with the FCC per the 
> following link:
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
>
>                 -Scott
>
> *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
>
> 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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