[asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell

[Don Kelly]

I think Joe's analysis is unreasonably negative regarding the landline
companies' willingness to port. The link he provides,
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html, reflects my experience.

A couple cautions, however:

Landline companies may take two to three weeks to actually complete the port
(as the FCC says, DO NOT cancel your current service until the new service
is actually working).

Your new carrier will request an LOA (Letter of Authorization) to complete
the port. Make sure that the LOA is limited to making changes only to the
service that you want them to be changing and the account title (for your
existing service), service address, account number, etc., are exactly
correct on the LOA. Otherwise you'll hear from your new carrier in a couple
weeks that the old carrier refuses to complete the port because the existing
customer is "ABC Enterprises" and the new customer is "A. B. Cooper
Enterprises." (This is why they may request a copy of your existing phone
bill--to make sure everything is letter-perfect.)

  --Don

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-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Greco
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:59 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell

> Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with "V"). am looking
to move to all wireless.  Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port
the current land line numbers to a wireless provider?
> 
> >From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say "no", they cannot refuse, or
impede this.

Your local Vendor can certainly refuse to port the number, regardless of
whether or not they're actually supposed to allow portability.  They're 
the phone company, they don't have to care.

Excuses can range fom "we don't support that" to "the equipment's too old"
to "my dog ate my homework."

They know that 99.9% of all consumers are stupid and/or will not argue the
point.  Most people do not choose to engage big businesses over things 
like this.  That's unfortunate, of course, because it enables companies to
get away with blowoffs like this successfully and makes it harder for the
rest of us to fight.

You might find it interesting and/or useful to see if you can get them to
port it to their own wireless division, assuming that they have one.

If you decide to press the point, which you're encouraged to do, then the
following resource ought to be helpful.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then
I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
apples.
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