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

[Martin List-Petersen]

On tor, 2005-02-03 at 20:02 +0100, Stefan Gofferje wrote:
[snip]
> Maybe you have something like that too, where your customers don't pay 
> too much and you don't pay too much. A nice side effect is that nobody 
> will ever know that your companies HQ is in a lonely little village in 
> the middle of nowhere because everybody thinks "they have a service no. 
> they must be huge"...

Actually, that is wrong. Any company that uses a 0180x is just single
minded and purely focused on the german marked. Funny as hell, these
numbers are simply blocked by nearly any international destination,
because it's too complicated to get them rated correctly. Often
companies using these numbers forget, that nobody outside the country
can call them anymore, unless they provide an alternative number.

I used to have a free fax-number in Germany, that I had to cancel, when
they switched everybody over on 01805 numbers. The number became useless
to me, because it only can be called inside Germany.

Slán leat,
Martin List-Petersen
Dublin, Eire 
(contact info on --> http://www.marlow.dk/)