On 5/22/07, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that is going way too far. People can spend a lot of time and money advertising a tollfree number. The FCC should not allow renting or leasing of tollfrees without some kind of "large print" disclosure. I can fully understand temporary needs like a targeted TV ad campaign where the call center provides the DID. Otherwise, tollfrees should not be held captive.
the same argument can be said for a non-tollfree. However vonage is not a phone company, and I do not encourage anyone to go forth and insist that ITSPs be treated as carriers since that will cause more legal headaches, and regulatory nightmares (do you really want to fall into the rules of 50 states, a few territories, federal rules, etc?). Vonage is the customer of the phone company, the number is theirs. The same argument could be made that if you use a payphone all the time that you should be able to own the number assigned to it simply because of 'squatters rights'. I personally disagree. I use the woud 'you' in a generic sense, not implying anyone specific. If you enter into a contract, you agree to it, vonage doesnt hide the fact that porting out of their service is at their discretion and that you may not be able to do it. If you ignored that contract and are stuck now, that is not vonages fault, nor is it the FCCs duty to relieve you from your contractual obligations. If you dont understand what you are doing when you enter into an agreement, especially in a business contract, your boss should rethink his decision to allow you to make decisions on the companies behalf. If you are the boss, you should rethink the policy of deciding for yourself without reading or undertanding what you read, and hire someone who is competent to assess the risks of the agreement. I dont really see anything shady here, I have brought this up with vonage specifically in the past on this list, and vonage doesnt hide their TOS. The signup process makes you agree to the TOS, clicking 'next' without reading is not vonages fault. Once you start blaming companies for having contracts you really errode the power of a contract to force things like payment for goods/services delivered, etc and ultimately it will cause far more problems than it will ever fix. I do have a problem with vonage advertising $25/mo service when its really much more after taxes and fees, but that is a different issue :) -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
