<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'>This will no longer happen in 2025. Not sure if it's related to Verizon or not.<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>"Mary Lou Carey" <marylou@backuptelecom.com><br><b>To: </b>"Nick Olsen" <nick@141networks.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net>, "voiceops" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 18, 2024 7:41:28 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Frontier TDM -> SIP<br><br>Maybe they finally realized they were giving all their business away to <br>Sinch and InfoBip and that it was going to start costing them money if <br>they didn't move away from SS7. After all who has more switches to pay <br>for than the ILECs and RBOCs?<br><br>MARY LOU CAREY<br>BackUP Telecom Consulting<br>Office: 615-791-9969<br>Cell: 615-796-1111<br><br>On 2024-04-17 06:44 PM, Nick Olsen via VoiceOps wrote:<br>> We heard the same thing in the Tampa Market from Frontier. I don't<br>> remember the details outside of for the first time ever, an iLEC<br>> didn't just have a hard no response.<br>> <br>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:58 PM Mike Hammett via VoiceOps<br>> <voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:<br>> <br>>> During a conversation between one of my staff and our Frontier rep<br>>> with the context of moving our TDM tandem connections to IP (which I<br>>> thought was on par with a cold day in hell), our Frontier rep said<br>>> they were investigating SIP trunking for a possible early 2025<br>>> introduction. Given that they already sell retail SIP trunking<br>>> services, I'm optimistic that this might actually happen.<br>>> <br>>> Have any of you heard anything on this topic?<br>>> <br>>> -----<br>>> Mike Hammett<br>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>>> http://www.ics-il.com<br>>> <br>>> Midwest Internet Exchange<br>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com<br>>> <br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> VoiceOps mailing list<br>>> VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> VoiceOps mailing list<br>> VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br></div><br></div></body></html>