So sorry....when you said Verizon I was thinking ILEC not Verizon Wireless. You shouldn't need an agreement with a carrier to port a number from them. As long as the potential customer's TN homes on the same ILEC tandems that you are connected to, you can port their number to your network. You may want to talk to the other carrier about setting up a provisioning interface with them because you're supposed to issue an LSR to them to request the number be ported, but you shouldn't need an agreement to submit an LSR to them. Mary Lou Carey BackUP Telecom Consulting CLEC Consultant OFF: 615-791-9969 -----Original Message----- From: Eric Hiller [mailto:clec at cygnustel.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:54 AM To: Mary Lou Carey Subject: RE: [VoiceOps] Porting Cell Numbers Doesn't it just matter what tandem they have the number homed off of? ... and don't the cellular carriers typically home of the ILECs tandems? On Tue, July 12, 2011 8:26 am, Mary Lou Carey wrote:

You may or may not be able to do this, but I think the bigger question is how would the call get back to your switch if you don't have any interconnection trunks with them.

Mary Lou Carey BackUP Telecom Consulting CLEC Consultant OFF: 615-791-9969

-----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Eric Hiller Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:54 PM To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org Subject: [VoiceOps] Porting Cell Numbers

We are a CLEC and regularly port numbers over from the ILEC (ATT) who we have an ICA with. Would we be able to port cellular/wireless numbers from say Verizon or Sprint over to us as a landline CLEC without an ICA? I know we could do it from the Neustar/NPAC side of things, but would Verizon/Sprint/etc. release the number?

Thanks! -Eric

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