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(From the CLEC perspective)<br>
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In many states, your license states specific areas you are legally
permitted to operate in, and many times this language says something
to the effect of "The operating territories of AT&T and Frontier
North, including but not limited to the following ratecenters..."
with a huge list of ratecenters afterward.<br>
<br>
Unless your CLEC has licensure in such a way to permit them to
operate in the ILEC's territory, they won't have the requisite
operating authority to perform the port. Even if there are no
technical impediments for them to do so, number portability is only
eligible for carriers who can legally operate as a CLEC in the area
they are porting numbers from. Much like how a police officer from
one city in a state isn't a police officer elsewhere in the state.<br>
<br>
Once that is done, you generally have to have an interconnection
agreement with the ILEC in the area that dictates how their calls
will route to you, and how the calls are billed. This part can be
waived by the ILEC, but I've only seen one do it so far. Is it
necessary? No, I mean, the calls are already routing that way,
right? It's not like their customers couldn't call you before.......<br>
<br>
Once those are done, it's generally good practice to make sure
people in that area can call 911. 911 selective router footprints
don't always match service provider footprints. I've seen plenty of
cases where frontier customers use AT&T selective routers, or
vice versa.<br>
<br>
After that, you generally feel comfortable letting customers know
the area is open for service. Until then you're just asking for
trouble.<br>
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On 10/19/2011 05:35 PM, Scott Berkman wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">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: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">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: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">One option is of course to file a complaint with
the FCC per the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.fcc.gov/complaints">http://www.fcc.gov/complaints</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"> -Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Rob Hutton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] Unportable Numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; 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 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; 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 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Does anyone have
any experience working through this mess?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Thanks in
advance for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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