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