<html><head><base href="x-msg://81/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Richey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Is it common practice for Level3 to port numbers when they feel like it on the FOC date? Do they not let you call in and let them know you are ready for the port? I have never had this happen with a carrier before and don’t know if it was the SIP Carrier or Level3 that did this.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Richey<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>It seems that even for direct customers it is rare to do a coordinated port with Level3, it only takes a couple times to learn that you need to have your ducks in a row not to get burned by this. I've leaned this lesson the hard way as well.<br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">--<br>Robin D. Rodriguez<br>Systems Engineer<br>Ifbyphone, Inc.<br>Phone: (866) 250-1663<br>Fax: (847) 676-6553<br><a href="mailto:rrodriguez@ifbyphone.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">rrodriguez@ifbyphone.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ifbyphone.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.ifbyphone.com</a><br></span></div></span>
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