[VoiceOps] Preventing calls to cell phones with guaranteed accuracy

[Paul Timmins]

On 08/25/2015 05:52 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:
> On 08/25/2015 04:41 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:
>
>> most landline carriers won't port it to a landline if it's out of
>> ratecenter.
>
> I thought ports were only possible within a rate centre, and so by 
> definition impossible to port to a carrier which doesn't operate in 
> that rate centre?
>

That's what the rules say, yes. The language seems clear but these days 
really isn't.

The technology itself lets you basically port anything in the LATA 
you're in as long as your LRN is well connected. "operating in the 
ratecenter" can get pretty nebulous when you're talking about things 
like hosted PBX, remote call forwards, VoIP ATAs, remote office things 
like google voice, etc.

Nothing technically stops me from providing you a POTS line here in 
Detroit with a Los Angeles phone number, in and out. I could load a 
detroit 911 address and even not have to worry that you'll die if 
something untoward happens here. And it could all be as baseband voice 
on that twin copper wire coming into your house (and I could put bonded 
VDSL2/ADSL2+ on that if you wanted, too, depending on the wirecenter and 
distance!). For me, it's just keystrokes at my desk. And depending on 
what and how you and I contract, there's nothing at all illegal or even 
unethical about it. Heck, foreign exchange lines are a tariffed product 
still in many states!

What i cannot do for sure is have you request service from me, give you 
a number 3 towns over and not have you aware of that, and then laugh as 
you try to take that to AT&T POTS and watch them tell you in a 
bewildered tone that you can't keep that number and how do you have that 
anyway.

(This language applies mostly to Michigan as we've mostly deregulated 
our entire telecom industry here, to the consumer's detriment)

-Paul