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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is at least one rural iLEC in NE Georgia that is a PITA to work with. If nothing else, I’ve seen them require direct tandem trunking (to their tandem) or else they will not deliver calls to ported out TNs across the regular iLEC (ATT) tandem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve always been interested in the legality of this since my understanding of the FCC order is that it requires all LECs to allow for porting without any loss of functionality to the end user.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One option is of course to file a complaint with the FCC per the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/complaints">http://www.fcc.gov/complaints</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> -Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Hutton<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We have a customer in Northeast Georgia that currently has their phone service through an ILEC who I have been told will not sign the sharing agreements with the underlying VOIP networks, and therefore no one that I can find has any rate centers in that area. Also, the VOIP carriers have not been willing to do a off network port request, which when refused would allow me to continue forward on a complaint with the regulatory bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The underlying VOIP network companies have told me that they have Local Number Portability departments to work through this stuff, and I need to work with my higher level carriers to get a case opened with their LNP departments before they will talk to me. The higer level carriers are telling me they don't know what to do because they have never run into this before.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Does anyone have any experience working through this mess?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks in advance for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>