asterisk users - Jun 2008 - Number portability in other parts of the world.

Are phone numbers portable in other countries?

 

Are the same rules and conditions that exist here in the States mirrored
elsewhere?

 

How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main
number? 

 

Do they use call forwarding? 

 

Is their another way to use an origination carrier without loosing your
number?

 

Alex

 

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:49:18AM -0400, Alexander Lopez wrote:
>    Are phone numbers portable in other countries?
Depends what country
>    Are the same rules and conditions that exist here in the States
>    mirrored elsewhere?
>    How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main
>    number?
In the UK numbers are portable, though the telco wanting the number must
have a porting agreement with the telco that has the number. Not all
telcos have porting agreements.
>    Do they use call forwarding?
Can do.


Steve

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Number portability exists in Australia but mobile numbers only across
mobile carriers and 'pstn' numbers only across pstn carriers.

 

Some of the earlier Voip providers (yeh I'm talking about you Faktortel
<http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/faktortel-sucks.html>  )
don't allow portability as they assigned numbers that belonged to isdn
100 unit 'pstn blocks', but apart from that it's a pretty good
system.

 

 

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Are phone numbers portable in other countries?

 

Are the same rules and conditions that exist here in the States mirrored
elsewhere?

 

How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main
number? 

 

Do they use call forwarding? 

 

Is their another way to use an origination carrier without loosing your
number?

 

Alex

 

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Alexander Lopez <Alex.Lopez at opsys.com>
wrote:
> Are phone numbers portable in other countries?
Recent legislation in France (and perhaps this means the EU?) have made it so.
> Are the same rules and conditions that exist here in the States mirrored
> elsewhere?
>
>
>
> How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main number?
This is exactly what we are in the process of doing. We have asked our
provider to port our main phone number to their ipbx. I have used the
same people for IAX origination/termination so I presume that if we
don't like the ipbx we can go back to asterisk here or hosted and they
will be handling those calls.

It can't be said enough how important it is for a business to control
the destiny of its phone numbers. I feel these should be possible to
handle like domain names where you can buy one for life by renewing
it. Not quite the case today, but we get the same effect by paying a
fee each time we need to port the number.

r

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Alexander Lopez <Alex.Lopez at opsys.com>
wrote:
> How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main number?
> Do they use call forwarding?
I shopuld have mentioned too, that if you run your own asterisk you
can of course just be connected to your number(s) and deal with it all
in the dialplan. This is exactly where I am today. Tomorrow, we'll
have ported the number to a service provider in order not to have to
leave an asterisk box running in an empty office, which is the case
now.

Steve Kennedy a ?crit :
> [...]
>>    Are the same rules and conditions that exist here in the States
>>    mirrored elsewhere?
>>    How does a person in Europe go fully VoIP and still keep the main
>>    number?
>>     
>
> In the UK numbers are portable, though the telco wanting the number must
> have a porting agreement with the telco that has the number. Not all
> telcos have porting agreements.
>   
Same in France. If the number is an original France Telecom one, no 
problem. If the number was _already_ ported, can be a problem. In all 
other cases, I would suggest you to check if there is an agreement 
between telco.

In Poland, not possible today, should be end 2008/begining 2009.

-- 
Daniel