+1 I want to know! I'm betting it is the fact that Wireless Carriers were forced by the FCC to interconnect in order to do this, and that in most cases, ILECs and CLECs are not nearly so sophisticated, and therefore the process is wholely manual. Which means you have to wait for Susan to come in on her one-day-a-week day to process ports manually, and if something doesn't quite match exactly, Susan is to reject summarily. I hate porting. It's great for business, but it is a horrible and inefficient process in the US. On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Colton Conor wrote:
How do cellular carriers perform almost instant porting of number, and why can't landline providers do the same? For example if I take my Sprint cell phone to an AT&T store, and switch over to AT&T they can do this almost instantly.
I met someone one time at a tradeshow claiming they could do same day porting for landline numbers just as the cellular industry did, but I was not sure how he was doing it or if it was a myth.
I know cell systems are more automated and require a pin.
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