[VoiceOps] Growing difficulties porting DIDs out of major VoIP carriers

[Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE]

Our experience has been similar, although the problem can be overcome if the gaining carrier is sufficiently determined as we are for porting-in from those difficult carriers.  The more resellers involved, the lower the quality of the losing carrier’s records, for sure.

 

Our systems are designed so that our wholesale customer is responsible for adding end user information to our systems either via portal or API, then a gaining carrier sees that information when a CSR is requested on the carrier side.  The gaining carrier submits an LSR from there, the wholesale customer is notified automatically, an FOC is issued and NPAC release is performed.  This makes the process quick and simple, while still giving the wholesale customer time to stop the port if unauthorized.

 

We have certainly seen wireless carriers tell a subscriber that their number is non-portable, when the wireless carrier didn’t even pull the CSR.  That’s just lazy on their part, but we’ve also seen sufficiently determined end users get them to do it with some prodding.

 

Regards,

 

Mike

 

Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE

Terra Nova Telecom, Inc.

11523 Palm Brush Trail #401

Lakewood Ranch, FL  34202

DIRECT: call or text 941 600-0207

http://www.tntelecom.net

 

 

From: VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org> On Behalf Of Ryan Delgrosso
Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:00 PM
To: voiceops at voiceops.org
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Growing difficulties porting DIDs out of major VoIP carriers

 

I believe this has more to do with shoddy record keeping than anything. Most voip carriers will port their own numbers around multiple times (using scale as leverage to get better deals playing carriers off each other). When they do that its not uncommon for them to use the same info (like their office address) versus the actual customer info, or their address parser code to translate between carrier A's system and carrier B's system mangles something, or there has been some M&A activity and the merged databases have bad info. 

In the end the new recorded address is not predictable by the customer and is easily and frequently rejected. 

I am moving through a project right now to move numbers between carriers and have found my losing carrier has done exactly this. 

With the state of record keeping and lack of appreciable standards I'm shocked that the LNP system works at all. 

On 3/5/2019 8:41 AM, Oren Yehezkely wrote:

Hello, 

 

I am hoping that someone may be able to shed some light as to the difficulties mobile carriers have to port DIDs away from major VoIP carriers such as Bandwidth and Onvoy.

 

The problem does not seem to be on the VoIP providers. In most of the cases, they do not even receive an LSR. The mobile carriers seem to be asking for a CSR multiple times but never submit an LSR, then they tell the EU that the port request has failed.

 

In another case, when the DID is with Bandwidth, the ATT system tells the customer that the number is with LOCKED with Google Voice and cannot be ported. I wonder who builds these faulty systems for these corporations?

 

Any advice is appreciated.

 

Oren





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