Brian, are you sure you cant port your number aware from Vonage? I was at a VOIP conference last week and the Vonage spokesman said quite clearly that Vonage allowed people to port numbers out - although he did say that not all carriers were set up to receive them.
Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Capouch Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:31 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Vonage Linksys Router - Life after Vonage Matt wrote: > Indeed.. there is no $40 cancellation fee unless you fail to return > their ATA.. then they charge you and it's yours... what you think > those devices are free? I'm pretty sure Vonage added that termination fee some fair while after they began offering "free" ATAs as an inducement to use their service. I signed up in May 2002, and at that time there was no mention of a termination or disconnect fee in their TOS. It wasn't until after a very lively cottage industry sprang up selling "cancelled account" units on Ebay that they retroactively added that charge. But $40 for a ~$150 ATA was still a good deal for the grifters, and after continuing to take a beating on Ebay, Vonage finally inveighed upon Cisco to put the "nuclear option" password on the unit, which made it a brick if one didn't know the magic string. An irony quickly followed: Cisco wasn't all too keen on doing that change; they were aware of the negative PR that would follow when they would be forced to tell people, "Nope, you have to just send it to a landfill." But within months of Cisco's reluctant accomodation, Vonage dropped them like a hot potato when Motorola walked in the door with an ATA that was .000000000001 cents cheaper per unit. Ha ha. Vonage sucks, and if I could port that number I've had now for almost three years, I would drop them just like they did Cisco. B. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users