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Posted by T on August 27, 2006, 2:41 am
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ivan.filpo@gmail.com says...
> I am very anxious about transferring my local phone number to Vonage
> because I am worried that users that can call me for free now, will no
> longer be able to. I live in the border line of two area codes, 225 and
> 985, I can call my friends 985 number locally, no long distance charge,
> with my 225 number. However, since the number that vonage temporatily
> assigned to me is considered long distance to this town, I am scared
> that even though my current phone is local it might become a distant
> number.
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> According to what I have read about LNP, when porting numbers from one
> telco to another, you should remain in the same physical area; meaning
> that I should be able to still call my friends without the need to dial
> 1 and viceversa, as one would for long distance numbers. However, I do
> not want a mistake like porting my number from local to long distance
> to happen, and therefore, feel very anxious about this step and I am
> for confirmation that what I understood is right and that according to
> FCC rules it should remain local.
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> Currently Vonage gave me a temporary phone line, but since I guess low
> requests in this area since most people dont have internet, they were
> not able to give me a local number, and therefore cant receive calls
> unless callers dial 1. However, something else tells me that by porting
> my current phone vonage will gain or have access to a phone line in
> this area and should keep it local, at least that is what common sense
> tells me, but just need to confirm since I cant afford to make this
> mistake.
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> I understand that if exchanging local carriers the number should remain
> as local, but Vonage is over the internet and does not seem it would
> remain local, but it could with third party exchange carriers.
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> Finally, should I be completely sure that my line will port and that
> will remain local?
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> Thanks for reading and all your help,
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> Iv=E1n
When I first got Vonage they gave me a Newport, RI ratecenter phone=20
number. Problem is, I live in Providence. Their thinking on this was=20
that you weren't really going to give the number to anyone.=20
My LNP went smoothly enough. I did have to invoke the wrath of the PUC=20
though.=20
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