Pardon me for starting a new thread. I thought the issue was critical enough to deserve a general discussion.<br>
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I have been asking the following question to myself for quite some
time. Since Voxee was generally praised for their responsiveness ( I am
their customer and they have been good), I posed the following question to
Voxee after they announced their DID service:<br>
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"If I port my business clients' primary business DIDs (main incoming
number used for years) to <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">Voxee</span> and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in an UNLIKELY event </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" id="st" name="st" class="st0">
Voxee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> goes
belly-up (like LiveVOIP)</span>, what happens to my clients' DIDs? How
does he port back to other carrier? is their any regulation governing
this?"<br clear="all"><br>They
did response by saying that as long as the customer is in good
standing, they will "port out" the DIDs to other carrier. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BUT</span>, they didn't answer the real question about what happens if Voxee goes belly up.<br>
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I read much of the discussion on this list and elsewhere about per
minute rates (both incoming and outgoing). But, at the end of the day,
if your DID is out service, you are out of business!<br>
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In my opinion, the DID decison is much more critical than chossing a
termination provider. One can have multiple termination providers
configured in their PBX, so that if one is unavailable, the call can be
terminated using another route. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">But one CANNOT have multiple DID providers.<br>
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</span>The situation in general, and C. Hatton Humphrey's horrible
experience in particular, does raise some fundamental questions. I hope
that service providers, including Voxee, and legal-types will jump in
to elicit some answers.<br>
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1. I assume that only CLECS and ILECS can own the DID numbers in a
particular US state. (International DID ownership raises even more
questions since many service providers (resellers) are now offering
international DIDs).<br>
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2. Who is ultimatley responsible for LNP - the "current DID owner" or the "future DID owner".<br>
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3. Is their any regulation about what happens to the DID number if the
service provider (reseller), or even the CLEC, goes belly up.<br>
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4. Does the LNP regulation offer any recourse and damages to the end user?<br>
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<br>Thanks for indulgence and best regards,<br><br>smbPBX<br>