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Winner winner winner
Posted by: | CommentsDo you have a big customer and you don’t want to alert their present carrier that the account is now yours? Remember, ATL can arrange to have that customer moved without sending paperwork to the losing carrier. All you have to do is note on your RespOrg release form to “NASC” the number, and include a current LOA. The NASC (Number Administration Service Center) receives the RespOrg release and the previous carrier will not be notified until after the customer is gone. There is a fee, but for your larger customers, it’s probably worth it. Don’t let someones’ existing carrier talk them out of your hard earned sale!
There’s an Acronym for That!
Posted by: | CommentsAre telephony people lazy? Are they really too busy, or are they spies? Telephony is a business of acronyms which hide real meanings. One commonly used acronym is CIC. This stands forCarrier Identification Code, but is used to mean which switches a toll free number is routed to.
Another is NASC. It means North American Service Center, but it REALLY means taking a number away from a resp org if they refuse to release it after a legitimate request. It also stand for North American Spondylitis Consortium and 45 other definitions, but hey, we in telephony know what it means.
Finally, there is NANPA. North American Numbering Plan Administration. That stands for the good guys in white hats who got us all in this mess.
TTYL,
Esther
Do you want just the right number?
Posted by: | CommentsATL can provide our customers with a report for every toll free number that is in disconnect and going spare. The report includes the date the number will go spare. If you have a particular number that you want, give us a call and we can see if it will be available soon, or ask us for a copy of the report. If you ask for the report, remember that there are more than 50,000 numbers on it.
