On 5/22/07, Eric Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"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.
The carrier isnt the one that gave the number to the end user, the 3rd party non-carrier ITSP was. Given that you dont get a bill from vonage, that makes it harder to prove that you are the one paying for the number, that number specifically and not just some other service that might appear on a credit card bill. trying to verify yourself with a carrier that has no record of you as a customer is next to impossible. Now you could verify yourself against vonage, but the exerpt that you quoted was to say that going to the carrier and trying to prove yourself when their records show vonage is the customer in charge would be difficult at best if vonage didnt want to play along. Now since you seem to have some insight, how would you know that I was trying to steal someones vonage number if I initiated a port of a tollfree that was assigned to vonage? You cant possibly be claiming that you have access to vonages customer list, and if you are I call shenanigans. So I dont know why you said that its untrue that a carrier wouldnt know who their customer assigned the number to. They would have no idea who, in this case, vonage assigned a number to, and would be reluctant at best to port it away without vonages blessing. -- 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
