"The carrier for example wouldnt know that I was never a vonage tollfree customer trying to steal someone elses tollfree." - Not True, we would know you were trying to steal someone's toll free number. We must have proof it is your number, and YOU are the one paying for the number. If you can provide proof of that, you can fight for the port of that number. It doesn't always mean you will win, but you can put up a fight for it. I have yet to have any problems with porting numbers away from Vonage, but that can change from account to account. Now when it comes to porting numbers from a wireless carrier to VOIP I have seen problems. *Usually* wireless carriers require a SSN and ACCT number to accompany the port request to verify identity.
Hope this helps, -Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trixter aka Bret McDanel Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:07 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Vonage 877 On 5/22/07, Matt Dunkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought even 800 numbers had to be fully portable... Is that not the > case? > they might be, however its the customer of the carrier, not the customer of the customer of the carrier. How is the carrier to know that someone isnt trying to steal a number? I would love to get 1-800-flowers for example, but the customer of the carrier would disagree with me on that one. When you start getting into tertiary customers the law is less than clear, and I think it would create more headaches to mandate porting of tertiary customers, since only vonage knows who the real customer was, and what the terms are, for example if you paid your bill. So if vonage doesnt allow porting of their number, on their customers behalf, the carrier is in no position to force it to happen. The carrier for example wouldnt know that I was never a vonage tollfree customer trying to steal someone elses tollfree. -- 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 _______________________________________________ --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
