I had a long PDD and no ring-back on the first number For the second number I had a long PDD and no ring-back followed by a call announcement code. On my second attempt I got through, but also no ring-back. Should I be getting a ring-back? In regards to your question, yes, you have to self-test and beg and plead. We've padded our CLEC launches by about a month to work through all those issues. There's no telco equivalent for checking new block announcements (i.e. http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/) Frank -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Paul Timmins Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:07 AM To: VoiceOps Subject: [VoiceOps] Code opening miseries Has the industry come up with a better way of dealing with the drudgery of calling every carrier in an area and cajoling, begging, and pleading with them to get their new prefix loaded in everyone's switches other than the traditional "buy a pile of paygo phones and open tickets with each carrier" method? (half frustrated, half serious. If I had spare time these days, it seems this sort of contact information would be a perfect fit for my database, but alas, I can barely keep up with eating 3 meals a day these days, let alone work on more neat stuff like this) -Paul PS: If you can't call 708-666-7999 (and more humorously, 708-666-7565) please fix your stuff. If you have any unreachable codes, I'll happily check my systems to return the favor. _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops