[VoiceOps] Number Portability Within a Carrier

[Paul Timmins]

Well, the easy (?) way is to make a test call, or open a ticket with your tier 1.

But yes, I was stating directly that if your tier 1 doesn't provide you notification of line loss, they're incompetent.

In order to take your numbers away, the tier 1 would have to be involved (obviously) so if they don't notify you of a loss of customer, then that's just ridiculous. Generally, you can't tell otherwise, as the only difference between you and someone else is a route index in their switch, and a change to their billing system to account for usage. If you don't have access to one of those two items, you can't tell directly.

-Paul


On Oct 11, 2012, at 0:46 , Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:

> The problem is that I have no way of (a) knowing if they are competent and
> my provider is incompetent or (b) the tier 1 is incompetent. And if it is
> the tier 1, are you saying I'm simply SOL? Regardless of who is and who
> isn't, I'm hoping someone has figured out how to figure it out and to share
> their inside knowledge.
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Paul Timmins wrote:
> 
>> If your tier 1 is competent, they're passing CSR requests and providing some sort of loss notification.
>> 
>> If they fail to provide same, well, then they're not competent.
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 22:52 , Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> So there are some pretty big Tier 1 names in the DID/telecom world: Level3,
>>> Verizon, Bandwidth.com. Many resellers resell the DIDs they get from these
>>> bigger companies.
>>> 
>>> The problem is that the Tier 1 company shows up as the "owner" of phone
>>> numbers that we get from our Tier 2 or even Tier 3 providers. That's all
>>> fine and good, but the problem is this:
>>> 
>>>   Me ------> Tier 2 provider --> Tier 1 provider
>>>                               /
>>>   Not Me --> Tier 2 provider /
>>> 
>>> When someone submits a request to port a number, and they port it to a
>>> different Tier 2 provider that gets its numbers from the same Tier 1
>>> provider, I have no way, not even with an LNP dip, to find out that it was
>>> ported, that the owner had changed.
>>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure Tier 1 providers don't have an API or any way that I might
>>> be able to find out that they moved a number from one of their direct
>>> customers to another. Am I wrong?
>>> 
>>> So how do we deal with this? How do we find out, in a definitive and
>>> authoritative and programmatic manner, when a number we think is ours is
>>> ported away?
>>> 
>>> Beckman
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