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Posted by Rick Merrill on October 3, 2006, 2:36 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options hdtv? wrote:
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>>My father-in-law recently attempt to switch from SBC POTS to VOIP with
>>his cable provider (Time Warner). When he called them, they said he'd
>>have to have a new number, because the local community didn't allow
>>number porting...
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>>He's reluctant because he's had this phone number for ~40 years.
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>>Anyone else heard of this?
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>>Is it possible he could port with another third party VOIP providor (ie
>>Vonage)?
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> I ported my Sprint # to Packet8 without a problem. After a year with Packet
> 8 I changed to SunRocket.
> 6 months later my # has not been ported.
> None of the providers appear to offer any guarantees on transferring an
> existing phone #.
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They only guarantee p;orting CERTAIN numbers - i.e. where they
have reached an agreement on the procedure with the "owner" of the
numbers - i.e. the company who runs the CO where the numbers live.
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