[asterisk-biz] Nufone appears to be on the rebound

[Paul]

Bret,

I was strictly referring to protection of the numbers. I think the state
and federal regulators need to require that portable numbers be offered
in more cases(although reasonable fees may be charged). This requirement
could be based on total subscribers, total DID count or some formula
using such stats. My point is that I think it absolutely wrong right now
that companies like vonage can port in a Maine number originally issued
to me by Verizon but they won't assign me a new number that is equally
portable. I think it would be fair if the regulators required you, me,
vonage or nufone to do that once we grow to a certain size.

I don't think DID's should be used as hostages when there is a billing
dispute. All providers, regardless of whether they are a "real phone
company" or not have to make the right decisions about extending credit.
I say make them release the numbers and later they can ask a court to
add those costs to the damage award.

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

>There are protections in place already.  Get writtecontracts that protect you as a resellerand don’t make promises you can’t keep with that contract, or be a real phone company so you can own the numbers.
>
>*RUMOR* has it (ie this is what I heard but haven’t independantly confirmed) that the reason nufone got shut off was they didn’t make their commitments.  If true, regulators should never be in a position to protect people that buy from companies that make promises they can’t keep.  If they did everyone would say they will do 100M minutes per month to get good wholesale rates, then if they don’t do the volume hide behind the law.  The solution is to be careful when you are a customer - 'buyer beware' - and only go with companies that aren’t  all talk.
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>This isn’t  the first time nufone has had issues with their providers, the first time, according to many media reports, was nufones fault for not understanding the services they were selling and they got taken for about $400k.  This time it _appears_ it was by making promises they couldn’t keep.  
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>I personally would never use a company that has such a history, but that is just me.
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>-----Original Message-----
>   >From: "Paul"<ast2005 at 9ux.com>
>   >
>   >It would be nice if the regulators would protect NuFone and their
>   >customers in situations like this. The upstream carrier gets dictatorial
>   >powers and the end users can't get a hearing until after major damage is
>   >done.
>
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