TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: FCC Wants Comments Re: Should VoIP co's Get Numbers Direct?

Re: FCC Wants Comments Re: Should VoIP co's Get Numbers Direct?

Tim@Backhome.org
Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:03:09 -0800

Jack Decker wrote:

> point for the numbers to another CLEC. I think allowing this change
> would allow VoIP companies to provide better service to customers, and
> by the way it would also probably remove the current impediments for
> customers wanting to take their phone number from one VoIP provider to
> another (or to a landline or cellular company, for that matter -- in
> other words, local number portability for VoIP numbers would probably
> be a reality).

What is scary is that the FCC has allowed Vonage and others to claim
true LNP when that presently simply isn't the case based on what you
are stating. So, someone who has trusted Vonage (or other VoIPs) by
switching perhaps a coveted number to Vonage has, in fact, placed
ownership of that number in potential, if not actual, jepordy.

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