I believe there are qualifications on such consumer protections to prevent this from ocurring, although I am no specialist as to what they are.
The intent of the clarifications was to prevent ITSPs or carriers from holding end-users' numbers hostage in connection with billing disputes amongst themselves, above all else. As a side effect, the rulings established that the end-user is the logical "owner" of those numbers, not the ITSP purchasing them (internediately) from the carrier. -- Sent from mobile device On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Matt Riddell <li...@venturevoip.com> wrote: > On 10/11/09 2:40 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: >> Yaro Donchenko wrote: >> >>> Before you sing up with any one don't forget to ask them if you >>> will be >>> able to port the numbers out if there is any problems. >> >> In theory, the underlying carriers (UCs) whose facilities those >> providers use are required to allow the port-out, and so is the ITSP. >> >> Recent FCC rulings clarified that numbers cannot be held hostage to >> billing disputes with the ITSP, and that the end-user is the logical >> "owner" of that number even if purchasing from a reseller/ITSP and >> not >> directly from a carrier. >> >> This is all in theory. The point is that if you ask if you can port >> out, you'll be told yes. In practice, it may be a different story. > > So legally you could get 10 numbers, never pay a cent, then port to > someone else and do the same? Sounds rather dangerous. > > -- > Cheers, > > Matt Riddell > Director > _______________________________________________ > > http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News) > http://www.venturevoip.com/st.php (SmoothTorque Predictive Dialer) > http://www.venturevoip.com/c3.php (ConduIT3 PABX Systems) > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz