Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-09 Thread Glen Turner
[Very, very much my personal opinion, not that of my employer in any way shape or form.] Ben Donohue wrote: 1. I thought that numbers were supposed to be portable by law. They are. But the telcos wrote the rules :-( Your typical home number is a geographical number and is assigned to a

[SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, Recently I put an order in with Exetel to get ADSL2+ on my phone number. I received an email back from Exetel saying that Telstra has issued a Telstra Rejection Advice Report on the phone number and it is not portable from the Telstra network to Optus! There are two things wrong with

Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-08 Thread Ben
It may be on a Telstra RIM (no other companies can put their hardware in RIMs, only in the exchanges) The portability they require is to physically move your line from the Telstra DSLAM to an Optus DSLAM (since Exetel use Optus as their DSLAM provider). This is not the same thing as number

Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-08 Thread DaZZa
On 1/8/07, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Recently I put an order in with Exetel to get ADSL2+ on my phone number. I received an email back from Exetel saying that Telstra has issued a Telstra Rejection Advice Report on the phone number and it is not portable from the Telstra

Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-08 Thread Michael Fox
On 09/01/2007, at 1:22 AM, Ben wrote: It may be on a Telstra RIM (no other companies can put their hardware in RIMs, only in the exchanges) The portability they require is to physically move your line from the Telstra DSLAM to an Optus DSLAM (since Exetel use Optus as their DSLAM provider).