Exactly this. I actually ported my personal cell number to Verizon from ATT yesterday. Gave the rep my ATT account number, He 30 seconds later asked me for the PIN I set on my ATT account. I provided and my number was working before I hit the door on the way out. Total port time was <5 Min. I questioned the Rep if this was always the case and he said only if porting from Sprint/ATT/T-Mobile. And that basically any other carrier (Not including MVNO's of the above) took 3-5 Business days. Which is about in-line with my current wireline porting. I figure they all exchange so many numbers a day it was in all of their best interest to work together. Not to mention, By automating the process. They don't have to keep an entire call center worth of LNP personnel to handle their volume. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Alexander Lopez" <alex.lopez at opsys.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 6:00 PM To: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com>, "voiceops at voiceops.org" <voiceops at voiceops.org> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Instant Porting I think the incentive is to cooperate because it is a relatively small group of wireless carriers compared to wireline. The main reason being that they don't want their ports held up, so they work well with others. Also since there is a small group they could automate the back office processes between them and submit the request and aknowledgment quickly and without human interaction. -------- Original message -------- From: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> Date: 2/9/2016 4:32 PM (GMT-05:00) To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Instant Porting This does raise, in light of the OP, the question of what economic or political incentive wireless carriers have to cooperate in relatively seamless porting to/from each other. -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30346 United States Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops