Before number is ported, getting voice mail

[MisterEd]

I agree it's weird, which is why I'm posting a message here.

The tnid.org site shows me the original owner of the number (it's been ported twice since, and this is the 3rd time). I do see "Telephone Company Equipment Location Code", but it doesn't really tell me who currently owns it.

/c

When I put my (not yet ported) other number I see this. FOCAL is Vonage's CLEC. My other Voipo line which has ported is Qwest. Port took about 1 week.

[ctaranto]

Interesting. I went to the site again, and NOW is does display who owns the number:

Current Telephone Company:
Broadview Networks Inc.

Original Telephone Company:
At&t Local

Original Telephone Company Type:
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)

Telephone Number Owner's Estimated City: Framingham
Telephone Number Owner's Estimated Region: Massachusetts
Telephone Number Owner's Estimated Postal Code: 01702
Telephone Company Equipment Location Code: FRMNMAWADS0

This is all interesting information (and I appreciate the assistance), but it doesn't really explain why I received a voicemail on my VOIPo line before the port. The two ports in the past were like a light switch, as they should be.

/c

[usa2k]

One wild crazy thought. I wonder if a VOIPo account called your yet to be ported number, if it would route to VOIPo and VOIPo email? If this doctor's office somehow had a VOIPo account ... that's the closest thing I can think of.

Otherwise nothing makes sense.

IM me your number and I can try a VOIPo based call and see where it ends up.

[MisterEd]

One wild crazy thought. I wonder if a VOIPo account called your yet to be ported number, if it would route to VOIPo and VOIPo email? If this doctor's office somehow had a VOIPo account ... that's the closest thing I can think of.

Otherwise nothing makes sense.

IM me your number and I can try a VOIPo based call and see where it ends up.

Good catch. That's how it worked at Vonage when we initiated a customer's port and provisioned their device with the yet unfished port before sending it out. If someone called the "new" customer and they also were a Vonage customer the call would go to the new customers device even though the number hadn't yet ported or the customer hadn't even received the device. It would drive them nuts. The chanced of the Dr having a Voipo number are pretty slim but someone has to win the lottery.

[ctaranto]

But wouldn't it be logged in the "Callers" screen in vPanel? It's not...

/c

[JimDog]

But wouldn't it be logged in the "Callers" screen in vPanel?

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but Tim mentioned last month that VOIPo-to-VOIPo calls don't show up in Call History because of the way they are routed through their servers.

[usa2k]

Test voice message left. (It sounded like VOIPo VM.)