At 11/21/2011 07:50 PM, Scottie Arnett wrote: >How can you offer voice if you can not get local phone number's because of a >rural telephone cooperative?
I don't believe a rural cooperative can prevent you from pulling numbers from the NANPA. They are even required to interconnect with you for the exchange of traffic which, under the new rules, will *eventually* (like 9 years out) be at bilk-and-keep. You might however have to interconnect indirectly, via a third-party tandem, and there's some issue of recourse if they block calls to you. They are not required to lease you any network elements. And they don't like to be, well, too cooperative... but I'd first want to check with the lawyers to know exactly how much privilege an RTC still has. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
