Thanks to everyone for the helpful feedback. Jim
Jim Van Meggelen 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
