Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability - Consumerist Comments

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

Nick — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:32:16 EDT

Ah, the joys of LNP... [not!]

I work at a small telecomunications company that offers voice, video, and data. We have to port phone numbers every day (though, nowhere near the 13,000 that Charter deals with). Charter is right on the money when they say that porting problems cause mass chaos in regards to scheduling/installation. We are booked out at least a month for installations, so if the phone doesn't port correctly and on time it can be quite a problem for the customers.

Th funny thing is the part (according to your recap above, anyway) about small telecos "slowing down" the porting system. At least for us, it takes significantly longer to port a number from one of area's largest telecos, Comcast. Porting a number from Comcast takes us at least 12 business days. 12! What do they need to do for 12 whole days? And then sometimes they are late and it ends up taking longer. That's more than half of a month (and another bill for the customer from Comcast). No wonders the telecos oppose porting regulations. ;-)

Nick

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

Steve_Holt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:25:17 EDT

Is there anywhere to find a transcript of this hearing, beyond the somewhat thin (though very informative - thx) recap above?

Steve_Holt

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

Hawaiisumer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:42:09 EDT

I fail to see what is so crazy about this statement ?

further more his series of tubes comment was accurate, the internet is bundled fiber optical tubes with servers at the ends of various lenghts of fibr optics.

Hawaiisumer

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

Ashcan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:01:42 EDT

Well, Stevens finally said "truck". Thankfully, it wasn't in reference to the Internet. He didn't mention if the truck mentioned had to drive through any tunnels or tubes.

Ashcan

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

yg17 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:50:39 EDT

dear god, not ted stevens. He probably thinks the PSTN is a series of tubes.

yg17

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

ediebeale — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:38:57 EDT

"Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) gets to run the show."

Yikes! One of the more frightening sentences in the English language.

ediebeale

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

shoegazer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:29:11 EDT

@trecool95: Just late, apparently. LOL @ the suit and tie choices. Hope Carey doesn't fall asleep after a few minutes.

shoegazer

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

trecool95 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:21:03 EDT

Inouye is probably at the beach.

trecool95

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

ncboxer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:16:28 EDT

People still use Real Player?

ncboxer

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

rhombopteryx — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:01:10 EDT

Aww, there's a bajillion other hearings going on, so Senators could legitimately be other places... ([www.senate.gov])

Otherwise, it'd be awesome to see who showed up, and who couldn't care less about consumer issues. Tell us who shows, anyway...

rhombopteryx

Liveblogging The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability

rbf2000 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:46:40 EDT

I didn't realize the "C" in CSPAN stands for Consumerist.

I feel a bit bad for whomever is covering the proceedings.

rbf2000