[asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. joe a. ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Joe acquisto said something to this effect: Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? LNP does provide for this, at least in principle. -- Alex Balashov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
Quoting Joe acquisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. In Canada I've had limited success - personal lines seem easier to get done than business lines for some reason, and the whole issue of the overlapped area codes in the toronto area complicate things further (really or just portrayed that way as an excuse I am not really sure.) joe a. ___ --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 Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
I was going to port a number here in Ohio and Verizon said it would cost $90 to do so as they can charge what it cost them. Bob R Joe acquisto wrote: Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. joe a. ___ --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 ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
Joe acquisto wrote: Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. joe a. ___ --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 It depends on whether or not your local vendor actually owns the number itself or acquires it from another vendor. If they own the number, I don't think they're legally allowed to refuse to port it. If they lease the number from another provider, they're not actually obligated to assist you in porting, although they might, if you ask nicely, tell you with whom you need to deal to port the number. ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. Your local Vendor can certainly refuse to port the number, regardless of whether or not they're actually supposed to allow portability. They're the phone company, they don't have to care. Excuses can range fom we don't support that to the equipment's too old to my dog ate my homework. They know that 99.9% of all consumers are stupid and/or will not argue the point. Most people do not choose to engage big businesses over things like this. That's unfortunate, of course, because it enables companies to get away with blowoffs like this successfully and makes it harder for the rest of us to fight. You might find it interesting and/or useful to see if you can get them to port it to their own wireless division, assuming that they have one. If you decide to press the point, which you're encouraged to do, then the following resource ought to be helpful. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again. - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. ___ --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
RE: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell
I think Joe's analysis is unreasonably negative regarding the landline companies' willingness to port. The link he provides, http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html, reflects my experience. A couple cautions, however: Landline companies may take two to three weeks to actually complete the port (as the FCC says, DO NOT cancel your current service until the new service is actually working). Your new carrier will request an LOA (Letter of Authorization) to complete the port. Make sure that the LOA is limited to making changes only to the service that you want them to be changing and the account title (for your existing service), service address, account number, etc., are exactly correct on the LOA. Otherwise you'll hear from your new carrier in a couple weeks that the old carrier refuses to complete the port because the existing customer is ABC Enterprises and the new customer is A. B. Cooper Enterprises. (This is why they may request a copy of your existing phone bill--to make sure everything is letter-perfect.) --Don Don Kelly PCF Corp Real Support for your Virtual Office 651 842-1000 888 Don Kell(y) 651 842-1001 fax -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Greco Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:59 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] OT ? Number portability, land line to Cell Having had various issues with local vendor (begins with V). am looking to move to all wireless. Anyone know if current vendor can refuse to port the current land line numbers to a wireless provider? From what I've read, the Fed's seem to say no, they cannot refuse, or impede this. Your local Vendor can certainly refuse to port the number, regardless of whether or not they're actually supposed to allow portability. They're the phone company, they don't have to care. Excuses can range fom we don't support that to the equipment's too old to my dog ate my homework. They know that 99.9% of all consumers are stupid and/or will not argue the point. Most people do not choose to engage big businesses over things like this. That's unfortunate, of course, because it enables companies to get away with blowoffs like this successfully and makes it harder for the rest of us to fight. You might find it interesting and/or useful to see if you can get them to port it to their own wireless division, assuming that they have one. If you decide to press the point, which you're encouraged to do, then the following resource ought to be helpful. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again. - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. ___ --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 ___ --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
