Here, here! I have many questions about number portability aswell. Basically, if someone has a landline can they easily keep there number and turn it into a DID that will ring a server via SIP?
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > >
