-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Novack wrote: > > > trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > >> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:06 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: >> >> >>> On Friday 30 December 2005 13:23, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: >>> >>> >>>> CLECs and ILECs largely are required to let you port your number >>>> (there are some potential issues that cna prevent that but >>>> genereally that is a true statement). >>>> >>> >>> An interesting wrinkle I'm running against is that you cannot port >>> numbers from a cellular carrier to a landline. i.e. I can't port my >>> cell # to a DID on my PRI. I am not sure if this is just a line of >>> bullshit fed to me from Bell Mobility (Canadian CDMA carrier) but >>> I've not had the time to really dig in. They claim that between cell >>> carriers numbers are portable but not from cell to landline. >>> >> >> >> You can but no one is required to so most dont. Generally speaking no >> one will want to touch that becuase of potential problems. >> Its not technically impossible but it is not likely to happen for >> other reasons. >> > In the US that isn't the case. > LNP between wire and wireless is allowed and required. > I have ported a RCF landline number to wireless ( it took 3 months > because I put the order in on day 1 ) but it finally took. > I also ported a wireless number to Vonage, which also took 3 months, but > a year later. No excuse but it finally happened. > If I am ever able to rescue that number from Vonage is unknown, but for > now it works. > I feel sure the rules and results are different in every jurisdiction. > Is LNP even allowed in the UK or the EU? >
Within the UK, Number Portability between providers of the same type of service is a legal requirement. Since we charge differently for calls on landlines and mobiles, you cannot port mobile numbers to landlines or landlines to mobiles. - -- Ron Wellsted [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wellsted.org.uk N 52.567623, W 2.137621 Linux Counter No. 202120 FWD:519961 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ7WXA0tP/KMNOfRbAQJ5Ggf/Q5A+DIiu+/upXiXwmaSsvbkIfk5bRaqB KrJJslbZIaLB2WE0WLhZBIpYVC5JioDFa5Hoz/aEISmpliYhD8Eu6CXEbTIwgOQG JXTJnmCPlCWfslmQf4uuPa4s27af/RvPlMfwwNtnPi6ayACjkKHEP054BT8Swgi0 JuWedL6Di2IfyORZXgN/3CkCHz1MeNMQEGeNghl6BCgaot9jIyidTsG9yh2+3ODp hSxhmHo03G3Zve9pl7PHK+DxpzlPPGlfzATXe/gwh5ghsd/dW0NL8aSf63oxCcD2 cbwSlDtEYH52rd5V6fzeZgbgPdiKsxITYO6mdO6Zv4h0J40UR4Db4g== =5u5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
