@computergeek541 wrote:
@Nezgar wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think porting should require an actual response confirmation. Not just notification that a port is about to happen. It's the last line. If someone has acquired your information then you should still be able to say no in a reasonable amount of time.
I totally agree with this. As quick and painless as my port from Rogers to PM was, it was a little disconcerting that the only notification from Rogers was a text stating the following immediately preceeding the port, after which my old SIM was dead.
"Rogers has received a request to transfer your telephone number to another Service Provider. If you did not authorize, contact Rogers urgently at 1-800-588-6718"
My thought at the time was what if I received that message and I did NOT intentially port my number? Now my phone is dead and I theoretically would have no means to call that 1-800 number!
If carriers didn't allow the port to go through in he normal timeframe, people would then be complaining that the carriers are using anti-competitive techniques to avoid releasing the phone number to the new carrrier. When people port out, it's not always to keep the phoen number, but sometimes to avoid needing to talk to the old carrier to get that service cancelled.
How easy is it to reply back with "unsubscribe"? The same mechanism could be used to reply back with "Yes". 24 hour time limit. After that it defaults to a failure to port. Until then the port doesn't happen until it gets a Yes.
@computergeek541 wrote:
@Nezgar wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think porting should require an actual response confirmation. Not just notification that a port is about to happen. It's the last line. If someone has acquired your information then you should still be able to say no in a reasonable amount of time.
I totally agree with this. As quick and painless as my port from Rogers to PM was, it was a little disconcerting that the only notification from Rogers was a text stating the following immediately preceeding the port, after which my old SIM was dead.
"Rogers has received a request to transfer your telephone number to another Service Provider. If you did not authorize, contact Rogers urgently at 1-800-588-6718"
My thought at the time was what if I received that message and I did NOT intentially port my number? Now my phone is dead and I theoretically would have no means to call that 1-800 number!
If carriers didn't allow the port to go through in he normal timeframe, people would then be complaining that the carriers are using anti-competitive techniques to avoid releasing the phone number to the new carrrier. When people port out, it's not always to keep the phoen number, but sometimes to avoid needing to talk to the old carrier to get that service cancelled.
Agree. Providers will try to talk people to stay. One hour waiting on the phone and 10 minutes when they pass people to the retention department. Then, finally to the cancelation department.
@Nezgar wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think porting should require an actual response confirmation. Not just notification that a port is about to happen. It's the last line. If someone has acquired your information then you should still be able to say no in a reasonable amount of time.
I totally agree with this. As quick and painless as my port from Rogers to PM was, it was a little disconcerting that the only notification from Rogers was a text stating the following immediately preceeding the port, after which my old SIM was dead.
"Rogers has received a request to transfer your telephone number to another Service Provider. If you did not authorize, contact Rogers urgently at 1-800-588-6718"
My thought at the time was what if I received that message and I did NOT intentially port my number? Now my phone is dead and I theoretically would have no means to call that 1-800 number!
If carriers didn't allow the port to go through in he normal timeframe, people would then be complaining that the carriers are using anti-competitive techniques to avoid releasing the phone number to the new carrrier. When people port out, it's not always to keep the phoen number, but sometimes to avoid needing to talk to the old carrier to get that service cancelled.
@Anonymous wrote:I think porting should require an actual response confirmation. Not just notification that a port is about to happen. It's the last line. If someone has acquired your information then you should still be able to say no in a reasonable amount of time.
I totally agree with this. As quick and painless as my port from Rogers to PM was, it was a little disconcerting that the only notification from Rogers was a text stating the following immediately preceeding the port, after which my old SIM was dead.
"Rogers has received a request to transfer your telephone number to another Service Provider. If you did not authorize, contact Rogers urgently at 1-800-588-6718"
My thought at the time was what if I received that message and I did NOT intentially port my number? Now my phone is dead and I theoretically would have no means to call that 1-800 number! 
