ATIS said it completed local service migration guidelines for wir...
ATIS said it completed local service migration guidelines for wireline-wireless number porting. This month, an ATIS working group will start looking at another tricky matter: Porting numbers to and from VoIP phones. The ATIS number porting guidelines followed almost…
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a year of weekly meetings: “It has been a tremendous problem. There weren’t any rules,” said Joe Scolaro, an ATIS mgr. who chaired the working group: “We tried to simplify the entire process, put it in an easy to understand document… It allows companies to have one process that they follow, and they all understand the other person’s process. Everybody agreed that if we follow this process we'll have the smooth transition of customers from the losing company to the winning company.” Scolaro said ATIS started examining porting issues when CLECs complained about problems porting numbers back and forth with ILECs. The guidelines were developed by a group representing ILECs, CLECs, wireless carriers and vendors, ATIS said: “The resulting guidelines provide clear step-by-step direction for various local service migration scenarios, including directory listings, local number portability, emergency services such as 911… basic data services and a variety of bundled and unbundled service arrangements.”