<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Wow.  Try porting a large customer from AT&T... oh, that's not a simple port, that's a project.  And, one number isn't in our database, so we can't do it.  Or, the physical location doesn't match, so we can't do it.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Adam Vocks" <Adam.Vocks@cticomputers.com><br />Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 4:24pm<br />To: "Colton Conor" <colton.conor@gmail.com>, voiceops@voiceops.org<br />Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Instant Porting<br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Colton Conor<br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday, February 9, 2016 2:52 PM<br /><strong>To:</strong> voiceops@voiceops.org<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> [VoiceOps] Instant Porting</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">How do cellular carriers perform almost instant porting of number, and why can't landline providers do the same? For example if I take my Sprint cell phone to an AT&T store, and switch over to AT&T they can do this almost instantly.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">I met someone one time at a tradeshow claiming they could do same day porting for landline numbers just as the cellular industry did, but I was not sure how he was doing it or if it was a myth.</p>
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