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    Some of that may have to do with Syniverse being the porting engine
    for those 3.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/10/2016 9:57 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:<br>
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        <div>Exactly this.</div>
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        <div>I actually ported my personal cell number to Verizon from
          ATT yesterday.</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>Gave the rep my ATT account number, He 30 seconds later
          asked me for the PIN I set on my ATT account. I provided and
          my number was working before I hit the door on the way out.
          Total port time was <5 Min.</div>
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        <div>I questioned the Rep if this was always the case and he
          said only if porting from Sprint/ATT/T-Mobile. And that
          basically any other carrier (Not including MVNO's of the
          above) took 3-5 Business days. Which is about in-line with my
          current wireline porting.</div>
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        <div>I figure they all exchange so many numbers a day it was in
          all of their best interest to work together.</div>
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        <div>Not to mention, By automating the process. They don't
          have to keep an entire call center worth of LNP personnel to
          handle their volume.</div>
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          Nick Olsen<br>
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        <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif;
            font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Alexander Lopez"
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alex.lopez@opsys.com"><alex.lopez@opsys.com></a><br>
            <b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 6:00 PM<br>
            <b>To</b>: "Alex Balashov"
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com"><abalashov@evaristesys.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">"voiceops@voiceops.org"</a>
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org"><voiceops@voiceops.org></a><br>
            <b>Subject</b>: Re: [VoiceOps] Instant Porting</span>
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          <div>I think the incentive is to cooperate because it is a
            relatively small group of wireless carriers compared to
            wireline. 
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            <div>The main reason being that they don't want their ports
              held up, so they work well with others.</div>
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            <div>Also since there is a small group they could automate
              the back office processes between them and submit the
              request and aknowledgment quickly and without human
              interaction.</div>
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            From: Alex Balashov <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com"><abalashov@evaristesys.com></a><br>
            Date: 2/9/2016 4:32 PM (GMT-05:00)<br>
            To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br>
            Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Instant Porting<br>
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                style="font-size:10pt;">This does raise, in light of the
                OP, the question of what economic or<br>
                political incentive wireless carriers have to cooperate
                in relatively<br>
                seamless porting to/from each other.<br>
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                --<br>
                Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC<br>
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