[VoiceOps] thinQ is making hay while Bandwidth is down

[Peter Beckman]

Link to the marketing?

My POC at Thinq said they could internally port US Local DIDs between three
carriers. I challenged him on that too. He said he'd get back to me on the
how.

Before November 2020, we could complete a Port In through Bandwidth from
most wireless carriers and a few bonded carriers in 2 hours. Then they
blocked that and forced it to be 24 hours minimum. We can trigger the port
early the day of the FOC, but it still killed our speed.

I know it is technically possible to port in 2 hours because I have
completed 223 Port Ins between February 20, 2018 and November 19, 2020 all
in 2 hours or less.

Since Nov 20, 2020, we've completed only 33 Ports in less than 24 hours,
the fastest was 12.5 hours, average is 18 hours.

Beckman


On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, Jay Hennigan via VoiceOps wrote:

> On 9/27/21 14:17, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
>> This seems to be a bit disingenuous.  I don't believe that they can 
>> multi-home or move DIDs quickly?  Or am I wrong?  Could they actually 
>> solve the current problem?  DIDs are the only issue; we simply moved 
>> outbound.
>
> This looks like a marketing piece that doesn't address the current 
> problem at all.
>
> They're saying that once they have the DID, they can dynamically route 
> it to you to work around *your* power outage, disaster, etc.
>
> TTBOMK, moving a DID from one carrier to another still requires going 
> through the port process, which is neither quick nor always trouble-free.
>
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