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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#201F1E;background:white">Ben Fullerton | Director, Portability Ops | Sinch Voice | 406-532-3603</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ben Fullerton
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> voiceops@voiceops.org; voiceops@ics-il.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [VoiceOps] Porting Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Morning Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A couple chains were forwarded to me. It appears you were having issues with porting form us. Hopefully I can simplify it for you, but feel free to give me a call it may be easier talk over the phone. I have
also attached out TPP which explains this as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We do not provide concurrence, neither does Level 3 and many carriers out there. When you get an foc from a carrier that doesn’t provide it, its up to you to build it ahead of time so its cleared timers before
the FOC date. We offer a grace period of 5 business days. If you need to change the date anytime before the foc date you can do that via the portal. If its after the foc date and you realize you will need to port later than the 5 day grace then you can
email <a href="mailto:portout@voice.sinch.com">portout@voice.sinch.com</a> we do not remove translations until we see the spid changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We do caution you to not build your side until you have FOC, if we see something built our system will put a conflict on it unless we have a valid FOC’d order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#201F1E;background:white">Ben Fullerton | Director, Portability Ops | Sinch Voice | 406-532-3603</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Brian Knight <<a href="mailto:brian@knight-networks.com">brian@knight-networks.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 16, 2025 8:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Knight <<a href="mailto:Brian.Knight@sinch.com">Brian.Knight@sinch.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [VoiceOps] Porting Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[VoiceOps] Porting Process<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1. Verify the TN is in our LATA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3. Enter the TN(s) into their port out portal, choosing the FOC date of customer installation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The last ports we did with both Level 3 and Sinch, we weren't able to activate the port because the timers hadn't expired. Both required reaching out to their port-out
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What are we doing wrong, or was it simply one-time glitches on the other carrier's side?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Something is telling me that maybe we need to create the port-out in Neustar SOA as soon as we get the FOC, not on the FOC date. However,
we sometimes run into hiccups with the install and may not want it to port that day. Is it as simple as just not doing the activation step until it's actually ready? Create the port, let the timers expire, then activate when ready, assuming it's after the
FOC date? I assume there's a time limit to that and at some point in the future, the FOC date would time out and we'd have to start all over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mike Hammett<br>
Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>
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