We've got a local Telco and Frontier prefixed that we can't port to ANY
voip provider, only to cellular providers. No one has been able to find a
way to port these prefixes or some other ones I didn't list here.

507-634
507-635
507-365
507-528
507-527


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Fred Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com>wrote:

>  On 3/27/2014 3:11 PM, Chris Fabien wrote:
>
> This is the adjacent rate center to one of our main service areas, it is a
> local call. Different telco though.
>
>
> As a general rule, any rate center's numbers can be made portable if they
> aren't already so.  It can worst case take six moths to implement.  But
> that was usually done long ago.
>
> However, in order to port a number into a rate center, the carrier (CLEC)
> needs connectivity to the tandem switch that serves that rate center, which
> may belong to the ILEC in that rate center, or a third ILEC, not the one in
> the bigger exchange next door.  If you tell me the rate centers in question
> I may be able to determine that for you.  CenturyTel[/link] is notorious
> for being uncooperative, hoping state regulators let them bend the rules
> their way.  And some rural ILECs think they're exempt from interconnection
> rules, though they're not.  So it would not be surprising if the underlying
> CLECs just don't touch those RCs.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote:
>
>>  Typically, you can check to the local calling guide and if the rate
>> center with the numbers is local to a rate center your providers are in,
>> you should be good to go. YMMV.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Chris Fabien" <ch...@lakenetmi.com>
>> *To: *"WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>> *Sent: *Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:01:38 PM
>> *Subject: *[WISPA] Number's that can't port to VOIP
>>
>>
>> We have a customer on fringe of a rural Century Tel area and both of our
>> voip providers came back saying they were unable to port the number for us.
>> Are there remote areas where you still can't port a number? Is there a way
>> to find out if anyone can port this number? Like a master list or database
>> I can search?
>>
>>
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