[asterisk-biz] Vonage 877

[Eric Babcock]

"The carrier for example wouldnt know that I was never a vonage tollfree
customer trying to steal someone elses tollfree." - Not True, we would
know you were trying to steal someone's toll free number.  We must have
proof it is your number, and YOU are the one paying for the number.  If
you can provide proof of that, you can fight for the port of that
number.  It doesn't always mean you will win, but you can put up a fight
for it.  I have yet to have any problems with porting numbers away from
Vonage, but that can change from account to account.  Now when it comes
to porting numbers from a wireless carrier to VOIP I have seen problems.
*Usually* wireless carriers require a SSN and ACCT number to accompany
the port request to verify identity.

Hope this helps,

-Eric
  
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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Trixter aka
Bret McDanel
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:07 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Vonage 877

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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