I've had good experience with LES.net based in Winnipeg, AFAIK they can port TF numbers (for a fee, of course)
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > >
