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    LNP does not apply to all ILEC's.<br>
    Just as the TA96 mainly applied to RBOC's.<br>
    The RLEC's are a special case and don't have to sign ICA or LNP
    agreements.<br>
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    On 10/19/2011 5:35 PM, Scott Berkman wrote:
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        <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>
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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>
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        <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>
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              href="http://www.fcc.gov/complaints">http://www.fcc.gov/complaints</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">               
            -Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            <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"">
                <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;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>
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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>
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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>
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            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>
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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>
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