Folks, I'd be grateful if we could have a discussion about number portability.
I have a couple of specific things I'd like to know, but I'd also like to have an idea of what knowledge we have in our group, and get it into a discussion so that it will be in the list archives. My questions are: 1) If I have an 800 number, do I own that? If so, can I simply move it to another carrier? Currently my 800 number comes in on my analog circuits, and Bell is quite happy to gouge me for things like CallerID (and a recently added $8/mo charge that does not seem to relate to anything). I'd much prefer to assign it to a VoIP service. No idea what my rights are with respect to this, nor what I might expect to pay. I don't want to find out one day that because I moved my number to wherever, I no longer have any rights to it (assuming I have any rights to it now). 2) I have a customer who has locations all over the 905 area code North of Toronto. They would like to have all their numbers come in on their PRI in Aurora, and then distrubute to each site via VoIP. I believe that local numbers cannot move out of whatever exchange they are assigned to, but I have seen some pretty creative things done, and there is such a thing as a foreign exchange circuit, so I am curious what is actually possible. Any other comments regarding number portability in Canada (whether related to my questions or not) or valuable resources would be most welcome. Jim -- Jim Van Meggelen Core Telecom Innovations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.coretel.ca 416-425-6111 x6001 877-CORETEL x6001 (Canada) www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
