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iNum and UN numbers via ex Voxbone now Bandwidth
by compuwizz＠gmail.com June 10, 2022

June 10, 2022

I believe the iNum project was shutdown by Voxbone before Bandwidth bought them, but I didn't see anything about the UN +888 country code numbers that Voxbone hosted also. They used to be reachable via ENUM but I'm not seeing records for them anymore. Does the UN range exist anymore? I do see the destination listed in some vendor rate sheets with varying pricing from normal to astronomical. The test numbers I have don't complete. FWIW I also see the iNum range +8835100 in rate sheets. ~Jared

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STI-CA average pricing
by nathana＠fsr.com June 8, 2022

June 8, 2022

Starting to collect quotes for SHAKEN cert signing from STI-CAs, and got our first response back. I also got whiplash at the same time. Although I didn't have to sign an NDA or agree to any kind of confidentiality in order to get this response, since nobody seemingly wants to publish their pricing, I will (at least for the time being) keep both the quote itself as well as the vendor name close to my chest. But...dang. Though I'm hoping to be surprised, I'm guessing that there isn't a wide difference in pricing between various STI-CAs. Can people here confirm that I'm likely to mostly hear same-y figures from others? Or if there are options that are significantly cheaper than others, who do y'all recommend that I should be talking to? Note that I'm only talking about the CA component as a standalone offering, though I'll observe that with very few exceptions, it also doesn't seem like too many vendors are either willing to unbundle the CA service from their overall "end-to-end cloud-based SHAKEN" products, or if they are, they seemingly don't like to publicize it. To put my response to this pricing in context, we are a relatively small regional broadband provider, and voice is a fraction of a fraction of our business. I'd wager just about everyone else here has a larger voice subscriber base than we do, and most of you probably didn't blink when you saw the price-tag on what it would take to become part of the STIR/SHAKEN ecosystem...just the cost of doing business, right? We do have effective CLID anti-spoof already & have since the beginning, and as a small provider, we also were *supposed* to have another 12 months to get up to speed on all of this and start signing calls...at least, that was the case until the FCC moved that timetable up in what I can only describe as a Darth Vader-esque "altering [of] the deal". We didn't get that memo in December but only about 3ish months ago, and it's not like I don't have plenty of other things to do, so I'm already coming into this project plenty pissed off... *sigh* Anyway, I can see that the gate-keepery-ness of this industry is still alive and well. Though I can understand wanting to keep out the riff-raff, you would think that all of the hurdles that one needs to clear in order to get this far -- getting an OCN, on-boarding with the STI-PA, etc. -- would be enough without also throwing yet another huge mandatory & ongoing expense on top of the pile as well. Sorry. Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but...ugh. -- Nathan Anderson First Step Internet, LLC nathana at fsr.com

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Establishing a new LRN
by matthew＠corp.crocker.com June 4, 2022

June 4, 2022

Hello all, What is the process for establishing a new LRN in a LATA? We have 3 codes assigned to us for LATA 126 (413-200, 413-654, 413-370). I currently have an LRN 413-654-1234 assign to a switch. I need a new LRN (413-200-1234 ???) assigned to a new switch. All of my interconnect stuff is handled via Inteliquent, they can route the calls to my codes to the appropriate switch. I have all of the SIP trunks built for Inteliquent. I need to migrate customers from one switch to another. My plan is to establish a new LRN on an existing code (413-200-1234 for example). Have Inteliquent route the code to my new switch. Then I can update the porting database for customers to the new LRN as they are migrated. I believe I need to update the LERG but I don?t know how to do that Thanks -Matt

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Getting a century block and/or specific prefix in NPA 760
by caalvarez＠gmail.com June 3, 2022

June 3, 2022

We have a customer who relies heavily on image marketing who has requested this. We use Bandwidth and thinQ, neither of which have much for sequential numbers there. And for some reason they asked this: *** We will need a block of 100 numbers. Hopefully you can get close to 760-459-4500 as the first number in the block. We have to have area code 760. As soon as I get a count on the number of phones needed I will let you know. *** They are a good customer with hundreds of phones with us, and I know they'd pay if we could figure out some reasonable way to do it. Ideas?

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Arbitration or Peering?
by compuwizz＠gmail.com May 12, 2022

May 12, 2022

This blog post from Transnexus highlights a filing Inteliquent placed with the FCC about an Arbitrage Scheme. https://transnexus.com/blog/2022/access-arbitrage-rules-discussion/ The link is broken to the original filing so I can't read the full details. Maybe I'm not understanding the full complaint, but Inteliquent is expecting a lot of traffic to come through them to the IPES's number ranges but they aren't getting the traffic. The "Wholesale Inbound Provider" instead is getting the traffic. Wouldn't this just be similar to private peering between providers? I've had "10 Digit peering" service before from a vendor but that product went away a few years ago. ~Jared

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Carriers / TCR requiring NetNumber ID for SMS, even P2P
by beckman＠angryox.com May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

I'm hearing from one of my carriers that in order to continue sending P2P (NOT A2P) SMS from our DIDs, my $dayjob needs to purchase and maintain a NetNumber ID to use as the SPID for SMS. I'm also hearing that ALT-SPIDs are being discontinued. Does anyone else know about this change, who is driving it, and why? Anyone want to share costs involved in getting and maintaining an NNID for this purpose? This feels more like pay-to-play than a solution to reduce unwanted SMS. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com https://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Activation Timing
by voiceops＠ics-il.net May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022

I'm trying to develop some new rules for dates we choose for porting. We have to build outside plant for most customers to accommodate their turn-up. The customers generally don't understand why the phone isn't alive when the tech is on-scene, but the tech has to go on-scene to build the infrastructure. Is it reasonable to choose a port date that seems like it would work, then bump the activation day by day if OSP has encountered any issues? I would like to think that by not *activating* the port and rescheduling it for the next day, everything would still work correctly, but I'd rather be right than lucky. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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Trading Partner Agreements and Porting: How Long to Complete?
by beckman＠angryox.com April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022

I've got a Metro by T-Mobile customer (SPID 158H) that wants to port their number. Our carrier doesn't have a current Trading Partner Agreement (TPA) in place with Metro. So, they told me they submitted one to Metro on March 30, 2022. It is now April 27, 2022, and as far as I have been told, Metro has not responded to nor signed the agreement, preventing the customer port for almost a month now. I don't know much about what a TPA is, why or what it is needed for, and how long by FCC rule it must be completed within. What I do know is that the FCC does not look kindly upon carriers who deny porting to consumers. Can someone educate me about: - What is a TPA and why is it needed to Port numbers between carriers? - What FCC Rule (if any) states the maximum amount of time before a TPA is signed? - How does a consumer escalate within their carrier in order to force the completion of the TPA and get their number to port? - What does a non-Tier 0 carrier do to escalate conflicts between their carrier vendor and another carrier? - What have I stated that isn't accurate, or what am I missing? Thanks Beckman PS -- If anyone named Frank is listening and managing TPAs for their carrier clients, I'd love to hear from you! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com https://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Remote LEC Support
by voiceops＠ics-il.net April 26, 2022

April 26, 2022

Are any of the larger operators on the other side of a tandem switch worth a darn to get support on a current issue through? I put in a ticket with Frontier (tandem operator), but almost all of the time, they end up just saying that they opened a ticket with the operator on the other side (which I already knew had problems) and then wait for resolution. For my troubles, I get to wait another several hours. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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Neustar SOA Activity
by voiceops＠ics-il.net April 25, 2022

April 25, 2022

How can I see all activity that my SPID has had in a given time frame? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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