Number Porting was FAST!

[wpwood3]

On July-21 I entered my request to have my number ported over from AT&T to Ooma
Today, July-30, the port was completed!

At approx 1pm today, my AT&T landline went dead (no dialtone). I could still dial out via my Ooma temp line but, nobody could dial in. By 7pm tonight my port was complete and people could dial into my Ooma phone using my old AT&T phone number

Kewl!

[bw1]

I think you have the new record of 9 days. The old record was 10 days - viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5452&p=38447#p38447.

[lbmofo]

Come August 2, FCC mandated 1 day port will make it even faster.

[midas]

Come August 2, FCC mandated 1 day port will make it even faster.

I'm waiting till then to start my port. I figure it will give me a few more days to try out the service and make sure I like it. But I'll be curious to see if it's really one day. I assume, based on the law, that the old telco will have to do it in one day, but I wonder how long it's going to take Ooma to process things.

[lbmofo]

Smaller carriers have 6 months grace and I am guessing ooma is considered small. At least the big boys won't hold things up come 8/2.

[midas]

I thought the new regulations were designed to prevent the old telco from stalling the transfer so they had a chance to talk you into staying with them. What little I read didn't seem to put any regulations in place to address the new telco side of the equation. The new telco (Ooma in this case) has all the incentive of trying to get it done quickly. After all, the customer trying to port the number is now their customer and likely to still be within their trial period. Doesn't make much sense to upset that customer if they don't have to.

[midas]

Well let's see how the new laws work now. I started the porting process this morning at 4AM Pacific time. So far, 14 hours later, status shows it's still on the first step, order received.

[renatae]

One day porting would be HUGE! I just connected today and filled out the forms for porting today as well - will let you know what happens.

[Camilla]

Lucky for you the number porting was a fast process! I'm stuck with having to call Verizon after patiently waiting 18 days for my number to port. Nope, number didn't port (via an Ooma rejection email). Indeed, I followed instructions to dryloop my landline/dsl before initiating the port. Apparently when I did so, Verizon disconnected my phone number. This whole time I've been anxiously waiting with high hopes due to the fact that Ooma.com/porting_status page had 3 green checks next to positive words like 'order recieved', 'information verified', 'port initiated', and the best one... 'number port is estimated to complete on Aug 03, 2010'. Classic. Above all, I have to explain this to my mom. I bet you $1000 she will say "Get my LANDLINE BACK!!!" I hope if and when I get this fixed it'll be smooth sailing from here.

P.S. I had Verizon problems drylooping the service. I had to call Verizon:Outsource Edition about 10 times. Wow Wow Wow!

PSS sorry for the negative post waaa waa waaaa

[lbmofo]

Lucky for you the number porting was a fast process! I'm stuck with having to call Verizon after patiently waiting 18 days for my number to port. Nope, number didn't port (via an Ooma rejection email). Indeed, I followed instructions to dryloop my landline/dsl before initiating the port. Apparently when I did so, Verizon disconnected my phone number. This whole time I've been anxiously waiting with high hopes due to the fact that Ooma.com/porting_status page had 3 green checks next to positive words like 'order recieved', 'information verified', 'port initiated', and the best one... 'number port is estimated to complete on Aug 03, 2010'. Classic. Above all, I have to explain this to my mom. I bet you $1000 she will say "Get my LANDLINE BACK!!!" I hope if and when I get this fixed it'll be smooth sailing from here.

P.S. I had Verizon problems drylooping the service. I had to call Verizon:Outsource Edition about 10 times. Wow Wow Wow!

PSS sorry for the negative post waaa waa waaaa

Is your landline operational or dead?