[asterisk-biz] Porting Resold DIDs

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Voip Xpress wrote:

> Has anyone successfully ported DIDs via a reseller in Canada?
> 
> We have some canadian DIDs we buy from a US reseller, who in turn buys
> them (maybe through a middle man) from Broadvox, who are the owners of
> the DID that the telco recognises.
Welcome to world of lemonade stands.

To correct you, broadvox is not an owner of DID. broadvox is a 'customer
of record'. telco owns DID.

> My reseller will give me authorisation to port, but the telco has never
> heard of them.  I am in a never ending paper chase.  The reseller makes
> out that this is easy in the US.  All it takes is an email.  Is this a
> Canadian problem, or have others had similar problems. Has anyone found
> a way around this?
Yes, be a customer of record. not a customer of a customer of a customer 
of record.

-alex