[Asterisk-Users] Semi-OT: porting numbers away

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:06 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 13:23, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> > CLECs and ILECs largely are required to let you port your number (there
> > are some potential issues that cna prevent that but genereally that is a
> > true statement).
> 
> An interesting wrinkle I'm running against is that you cannot port numbers 
> from a cellular carrier to a landline.  i.e. I can't port my cell # to a DID 
> on my PRI.  I am not sure if this is just a line of bullshit fed to me from 
> Bell Mobility (Canadian CDMA carrier) but I've not had the time to really dig 
> in.  They claim that between cell carriers numbers are portable but not from 
> cell to landline.

You can but no one is required to so most dont.  Generally speaking no
one will want to touch that becuase of potential problems.  

Its not technically impossible but it is not likely to happen for other
reasons. 


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