Hello, In my experience, all MPLS providers allow their customers to influence their own BGP route metrics by sending community values to the provider, with the provider adjusting metrics (such as local preference), based on these BGP communities (reference = http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example0918...). I sent a simple request to our Verizon reps, asking for the community syntax required to perform this task on a Verizon MPLS network. I expected a list of acceptable communities in the form of ASN:xxx (example: 65000:120 to set local preference to 120). My contacts at Verizon are insisting that this “feature” is not available and will not be available until September 2013! From my perspective, they are basically telling me that we are not allowed to enforce our own route policy on our own network. If someone from Verizon is able to help, I would appreciate an offline response. Thank you! Bill