<div dir="ltr">I'm thinking it's not malicious, but probably just stupid. Then again, Telesphere was rather sleazy-feeling, and Vonage doesn't seem to have changed them. The pending order issue has hit us a few times. They seem to have been internal orders between Telesphere and Vonage. When we pressed with a statement from the customer saying they had not placed any orders, the ports completed a short time later.<div><br></div><div>Most of our Telesphere ports were handled by Intelliquent, some by thinQ. Of the two, thinQ was far better at handling them when something went wrong.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:31 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We did verify the CSR information. All but one phone number was correct. There other phone number had the correct address, but a zip code of something like 1 2 3 4 5. Seems like something intentionally set up to cause ports to fail.<br>
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The problems that we've been having lately have ranged from there's a pending order, which there was not. We got that one a few times. Now this is the second time they tell us that they have everything cleared and that it should be good to go.<br>
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From: Carlos Alvarez <<a href="mailto:caalvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank">caalvarez@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Vonage Port Department<br>
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I don't know that I can help much, but we certainly have had a LOT of<br>
issues with Vonage. They seem to be mostly on numbers that were previously<br>
with Telesphere, who they bought out. Many of them failed because<br>
Telesphere had their own address on them. So you might ask your provider<br>
"is the billing address this?" In a few cases, that worked, they said yes,<br>
and completed the ports.<br>
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This is the Telesphere address: 9237 East Vía de Ventura, Scottsdale, AZ<br>
85258<br>
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Another partial success has been telling the customer to call Vonage and<br>
get a CSR. Partial because their idea of a CSR is a spreadsheet that may<br>
or may not be correct, but when it is, voilà. And even when it's not, it<br>
shows our porting provider that we tried, and the customer clearly does<br>
have a proper relationship with Vonage.<br>
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Good luck.<br>
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:17 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net" target="_blank">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Could I get a contact in Vonage's port department? Level 3 is the<br>
> underlying CLEC, but obviously, there's some relationship there being<br>
> managed. We've been getting the run-around for a month trying to complete a<br>
> port out. We've been working with our mutual customer and regular Vonage<br>
> customer support, but that's often contradictory and thus far unsuccessful.<br>
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> The customer service rep said that the porting department only works via<br>
> email and wouldn't give us anyone's email.<br>
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> Our last instruction was, "Angela from Vonage said to resubmit the port<br>
> request again due to the numbers being in migration and that cleared<br>
> today." which is the same thing they told us about 10 days ago, but<br>
> apparently, that didn't work.<br>
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