[asterisk-biz] Vonage 877

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On 5/22/07, Matt Dunkin <mdunkin at innflux.com> wrote:
>
>  I thought even 800 numbers had to be fully portable... Is that not the
> case?
>

they might be, however its the customer of the carrier, not the
customer of the customer of the carrier.  How is the carrier to know
that someone isnt trying to steal a number?  I would love to get
1-800-flowers for example, but the customer of the carrier would
disagree with me on that one.

When you start getting into tertiary customers the law is less than
clear, and I think it would create more headaches to mandate porting
of tertiary customers, since only vonage knows who the real customer
was, and what the terms are, for example if you paid your bill.  So if
vonage doesnt allow porting of their number, on their customers
behalf, the carrier is in no position to force it to happen.

The carrier for example wouldnt know that I was never a vonage
tollfree customer trying to steal someone elses tollfree.


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