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

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> On tor, 2005-02-03 at 20:02 +0100, Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> 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.

The same problem pops up for most "alternate" number series. Freephone, 
Universal International Freephone, toll numbers etc. It can be hard to 
make these work from every operator within a country.

Peter