As part of UKEC, I was part of the team that spoke to Ofcom about it too back in 2009 (around the same time Ofcom were talking about mobile number portability and transparency). I see nothing has happened following that. :/
On 12 June 2013 18:37, Christian de Larrinaga <[email protected]> wrote: > The spineless attitude in Ofcom to porting is seriously inadequate in my > humble opinion. > > There should be a national porting service that ENUM like would manage > the routing without having to ingress into a legacy supply chain. > > Other countries manage it. > > > Christian > > Nigel Titley wrote: > > On 12/06/2013 14:34, Gavin Henry wrote: > >>>> The ITSPA members list is a good place to start > >>>> http://www.itspa.org.uk/members.shtml Some people on here are more > >>>> wholesale. > >>>> > >> Hi Nigel, > >> > >> Also check out those with the QMA symbol as that will shorten your list. > >> > >> Some things to check before moving away: > >> > >> 1. Your phone numbers; will you be porting them away? > > It would be less hassle than informing several thousand customers... so > yes > >> 2. If yes, were they ported to Gradwell or are they brand new? > > They were brand new and assigned to to us by Gradwell > >> 3. If new, then the Ofcom range holder is probably Telephony Services > >> which means legally when you move away the calls still come into > >> Telephony Services/Gradwell/AQL and then bounce back out with a > >> special prefix for the new provider. That's how porting works. > > Hmm.... > >> > >> Therefore, if they have network issues or downtime in the core then > >> the calls won't get sent back out to the new provider even though > >> you've moved on. > > That's more than a little annoying... but I can see why it would be the > > case. > > > > Thanks for the information > > > > Nigel > > > >
