You can't just "fix" this without addressing other issues in the PSTN architecture.
Neil Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2013, at 18:41, "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 > >
