[asterisk-biz] Seattle DID

[Mark]

Your payphone arguement is quite a strech, first off most North American 
payphopnes no longer accept incoming calls! Second that is a PUBLIC 
phone as they are often called.

 I will happily keep you posted.

trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 00:26 -0600, Mark wrote:
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>>Yes, some providers will attempt to play hardball, but I will truly know 
>>this answer soon first hand, as I am attempting to port away both a 
>>Broadvoice number as well as a Lingo number. It is a matter of those 
>>providers attempting to stall, however I fell there is really little 
>>they can do to stop it. I think they really need some overwhelming 
>>circumstances to completely stop the process.
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>broadvoice has something in their user agreement regarding porting I
>think is actually illegal for them to do ...  If you port a number in
>only at their discretion can you port it out.
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>Now I am the user of a payphone, can I port that?  Obviously it doesnt
>work as cleanly in all situations.  A payphone I effectively lease the
>number for the duration of the call.  I dont have any rights to that
>number becuase I dont pay the bill for the service on that number to the
>lec that is routing it.  As such there is a problem with trying to make
>a clean law without specifically stating what the outcome must be in
>certain situations.
>
>I would look forward to hearing what you have to say after you go
>through this process.  I would also be interested in whether or not
>either provider actively tries to stop you from porting and at all
>appears to have some success, even if that is overturned later and what
>you did to get it overturned.
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