[Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

[Max]

See this sites:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/nnp/index.html: ITU-T numbering plan
information
http://www.numberingplans.com/: Commercial provider of numbering plans
http://www.numberplan.org/: Commercial provider of numbering plans
http://www.wtng.info/: World Telephone Numbering Guide



se also:

E164.org is a directory of telephone numbers that can be reached over the
Internet.

The system works by publishing a DNS zone, 'e164.org', that can be used by
various Internet applications including SER, Gnome Meeting and Asterisk. The
idea is to be able to map your phone number to an Email address, website,
VoIP addresses, etc. Check out our

http://www.e164.org/


 Max Rivera
Asterisk-Brasil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tmassey at obscorp.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?


> Hello!
>
> We are open to the possibility of changing our business telephone number
> shortly.  This will most likely be necessary due to a physical move,
> changing providers and a few other reasons.  However, we woud like this to
> be the *last* time we need to do this.  Ever.  No matter what.  Is that
> possible?
>
> On the Internet, you get this power with domain names.  We "own" our
> domain name, so even if we move around the world, change connections,
> change Internet providers, grow, shrink, etc. we keep the same domain
> name.  This is a wonderful thing.
>
> Is there such a way to do this with a telephone number?  Is it possible to
> "own" a telephone number, such that even if we change telephone providers
> or move from POTS to ISDN to T1 to VoIP and back a dozen times we can keep
> the same number?
>
> We would like to have this power with both a normal telephone number and a
> toll-free number.  According to our current provider (SBC in Michigan),
> the only way we can keep our current number is to convert it into a
> "virtual circuit" for almost $30/month (basically the same cost as a
> "real" circuit), and then forward all calls from that line to another
> number.  If the number is not local, we'd have to pay for long-distance to
> that new number.  I know that with VoIP numbers we can move and change
> Internet connections, but if we change VoIP providers, we lose the number.
>  With a combination of the two, we could buy a virtual circuit from SBC
> and forward it to a local VoIP number that might change if we changed
> providers, but that seems like a fairly expensive way of doing it.  Is
> there an alternative?  And what if we didn't want to use VoIP, but wanted
> to forward to a number that was long-distance?  Obviously, that gets
> expensive!
>
> Also, we're currently looking into toll-free service, but the alternatives
> seem to be much the same.  At least nobody is telling us if there is a way
> to lock in a certain number even if we change providers.  They've all told
> us that the number we receive is theirs, and if we change providers we
> lose the number.  I'm sure 1-800-Flowers, et. al. are not being held
> hostage like that...
>
> I would love to know what ideas you might have for getting a telephone
> number with the ability to stay with us even as the underlying
> infrastructure changes.  Is this even possible?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tim Massey
>
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