[asterisk-biz] Seattle DID

[Mark]

As I recall the basis for North American Porting was fashined after that 
which has been used for 800 numbers. With an 800 number the rule that 
has been used is the owner is the user, or the person or organization 
answering the phone. Any middlemen are irrelevant.

Yes, some providers will attempt to play hardball, but I will truly know 
this answer soon first hand, as I am attempting to port away both a 
Broadvoice number as well as a Lingo number. It is a matter of those 
providers attempting to stall, however I fell there is really little 
they can do to stop it. I think they really need some overwhelming 
circumstances to completely stop the process.


trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 23:42 -0600, Mark wrote:
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>>Christopher,
>>
>>I believe that ALL  North American DIDs are portable. I think with IP 
>>kall there is really little need to port away, unless of course you just 
>>have more money than brains (joking here, not intended personally), or 
>>knew that IPKall was going broke or something. Voxilla has a IPKall 
>>forum  . That may be an excellent place to get opinions of users.
>>
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>It depends on who the 'customer' is.  If I buy a block of numbers from a
>phone company I am their customer and I have to agree to have the number
>ported.  If I am not a certified phone company you have no right to take
>my number from me, the customer to whom the DID really is assigned.
>
>If you are actually issued the number from a company that allows porting
>or by a company that must allow (such as a certified lec/ixc) then
>porting can happen, if that is not the case then you may not be able to
>port. 
>
>I dont know the legal structure under which ipkall and family of sites
>(they have several with different services) operate under.  If they are
>their own legal entities then the rules that apply to itltd.com may not
>apply, if they arent and instead illtd is directly offering those
>numbers to customers then porting may be possible because most lec/ixcs
>cant refuse it legally.
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