<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>So then for you, the risks aren't worth the rewards in rescheduling ports?<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Shawn L" <shawn@rmrf.us><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, April 29, 2022 2:44:09 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Activation Timing<br><br><div dir="ltr">Just my personal preference, but I like to wait until I can see our equipment at the far-end (verified connectivity) before doing the actual scheduling of the port. I know you can amend the port and re-schedule, but there's a lot of other things that can go wrong during the port -- provider not actually removing the number from their switch, etc. (I'm looking at you Spectrum) that I don't need to create additional complications.<div><br></div><div>shawn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:22 PM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net" target="_blank">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I'm trying to develop some new rules for dates we choose for porting.<div><br></div><div>We have to build outside plant for most customers to accommodate their turn-up. The customers generally don't understand why the phone isn't alive when the tech is on-scene, but the tech has to go on-scene to build the infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it reasonable to choose a port date that seems like it would work, then bump the activation day by day if OSP has encountered any issues?</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to think that by not *activating* the port and rescheduling it for the next day, everything would still work correctly, but I'd rather be right than lucky.<br><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com" target="_blank">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com" target="_blank">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><br><br><span></span><br></div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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