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 Don Kelly PCF Corp Real Support for your Virtual Office 651 842-1000 888 Don Kell(y) 651 842-1001 fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Greco Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:59 AM To: asterisk-users@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. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
