I've had a hard time locating a CLEC that would set up a remote call forwarding account for me in area code 315 (Syracuse, New York). Can any of you recommend...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 4, 2007 3:33 am
On Thursday 20-September-2007, the California PUC announced the 714/657 NPA overlay to be reinstated. This overlay was ORIGINALLY announced back in 1999, to...
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David Linder
tyrodom2
Oct 9, 2007 7:14 pm
I have some questions about "paths" (as ATT calls them in its California tariffs) for remote-call-forwarding numbers and how they differ from "paths" for...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 9, 2007 7:33 pm
Number portability these days is NOT the same as most varieties of "Call Forwarding". Ported Numbers involve database lookups and routing instructions on what...
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David Linder
tyrodom2
Oct 9, 2007 8:12 pm
Thanks for your reply. Does this mean that the phone number in my example (in my original posting, reprinted way below) likely would or would not have its ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 9, 2007 8:24 pm
... I don't know about regulatory matters in this. But with the way that "POTS" number portability (both landline and wireless) is handled today, and I am...
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David Linder
tyrodom2
Oct 9, 2007 9:30 pm
Excellent. Now I get it. A few minutes ago, I made five simultaneous test calls to a friend's number that had been ported from being an ATT RCF number to a...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 10, 2007 2:59 pm
I found the following at the at&t "LEC" website of documents, the new "at&t" version of the old BellSouth Carrier Notifications/Network Disclosures .... ...
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Dennis McLeod
rdmcleod2000
Oct 13, 2007 2:23 am
Just released today and thought it may be of some interest to the group. Dennis News release October 12, 2007 CRTC to deal with the telephone number shortage...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 13, 2007 1:37 pm
... (snip) While not mentioned in this CRTC Press Release, there are probably going to be two different area cod relief options... - The overlay, where all of...
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David Linder
tyrodom2
Oct 22, 2007 11:44 pm
When I look at the websites of the better providers of business VOIP service, I notice some differences between these providers and residential VOIP providers ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 23, 2007 1:20 am
Sixty years ago, AT&T issued a memo authored by Harold L. Ryan and dated Wednesday-22-October-1947, with the finalized plans for a US/Canada "Area Code" format...
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John Novack
telephonejohn
Oct 23, 2007 3:02 am
... It isn't always just business customers. In the Washington D.C. area, and I assume others, Cavalier Telephone supplies the high speed connection, in some...
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Murray Hooper
m-hooper@...
Oct 25, 2007 4:17 pm
Folks Is there a decent source to finding out when an exchange will be available for dialing? We have several vendors who we purchase numbers from but when ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Oct 25, 2007 4:54 pm
... The official North American Telephone industry's database/warehouse of such information is Telcordia-TRA, in their various products generated from the...
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canadianalarmguy
canadianalar...
Oct 25, 2007 5:23 pm
... available ... I don't believe that there is a database available on the web for when a ILEC or CLEC will have numbers working but there are a couple of...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 6, 2007 5:24 pm
It was 25 years ago today, on Saturday 06-November-1982, that the 714/619 California NPA Split took effect, with permissive dialing of the new 619 NPA. Three...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 9, 2007 8:57 pm
The Kentucky PSC has postponed the 270/364 area code split yet again. The 270 area code in western KY is to be split, with the western side (far western KY),...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 11, 2007 11:42 pm
Last year, in Fall 2006, several area codes in eastern (Bell) Canada, Quebec and Ontario, went into mandatory ten-digit intra-home-NPA local dialing: 519 in...
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Snickerdo
snickerdo406
Nov 12, 2007 2:00 am
... The CRTC has never required the original NPA to be filled. When 289 overlaid 905, there were quite a few 289-NXXes pre-assigned prior to its activation,...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 12, 2007 3:23 am
... And now there's even INTER-MODAL portability in many parts of Canada, similar to what has exised in the US for several years now. There are some exceptions...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 15, 2007 9:16 pm
Earlier this year, in January 2007, VeriZon announced that it intends to completely exit the northermost, mostly rural, New England states of Maine, New...
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Murray Hooper
m-hooper@...
Dec 5, 2007 8:38 pm
When a new NPANXX is put into service is there a standard timeframe when all the LECs have to acknowledge these numbers? Ie if my company gets 212555 block,...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Dec 5, 2007 9:27 pm
... When a service provider requests a new NPA-NXX c.o.code from Neustar-NANPA (if the code is for a US point) or from SAIC-CNA (if the code is for a Canadian...
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Richard Currie
halfmoonguy
Dec 7, 2007 8:51 am
Telus has recently delivered it's most recent "poison-pill". This concerns wireline subscribers. If you do not have a wireline long-distance plan with Telus...
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kennethkfho
Dec 14, 2007 7:44 pm
I made the similar complaint to CRTC sometime ago and a paragraph of their replied is included herewith for reference "Unfortunately, this matter (CCTS #01490)...
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Dennis McLeod
rdmcleod2000
Dec 15, 2007 2:31 pm
... What is a PIC request? Dennis...
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Richard Currie
halfmoonguy
Dec 15, 2007 9:42 pm
PIC = Predesignated Interexchange Carrier Suppose you decide to have your long-distance service with Acme instead of Telus. Acme sends a PIC request to Telus....
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Dec 22, 2007 5:12 am
There is a neighberhood segment that has been geographically part of the borough/county of The Bronx since 1914, but is still politically/ jurisdictionally a...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Dec 28, 2007 11:28 pm
The small town of Reeves LA in extreme southwest LA, has had the '666' c.o.code for many decades now, originally as 318-666, changed to 337-666 back in...
