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>Some of these services cannot be dialed via some VOIP providers (like Google Talk) for that reason. I always knew this was the case, but I was never really bo
by Declanomous 10y ago
>Some of these services cannot be dialed via some VOIP providers (like Google Talk) for that reason.
I always knew this was the case, but I was never really bothered by it. Both the law (see intercarrier compensation[1]) and the subsequent ban make sense.
However I've recently run it to a rash of people who I can't call because my carrier and Google Voice block their numbers. Each of them has a Puerto Rican area code. They are all cell phone numbers, they all live in Chicago like me, but I can't call or text them because their phone number is Puerto Rican. It doesn't make any sense, because Puerto Rico is a part of the United States, we are both in the US, and we each ostensibly have US phone numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
- SixSigma 10y ago> Puerto Rico is a part of the United States PR is an unincorporated territory i.e. not part of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_territories_of_...
- __derek__ 10y agoThat's a distinction without a difference for the purposes of the comment to which you replied.
- SixSigma 10y agoNot really. As it has its own administration and ergo telecoms system. It makes as much sense as "the UK is part of the US"
- emodendroket 10y agoRight, yeah, who could forget how the US has sovereignty over the UK? What a nonsensical comparison.
- Declanomous 10y agoI understand the political nuance, but PR phone numbers work just like a phone number from the 50 states for everyone else I know.
- ubernostrum 10y agoPuerto Rico is not a state of the United States. Puerto Rico is territory of and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
- Spooky23 10y agoThat's not really accurate. That status was developed for the transitional period after the Spanish American War, and subsequent legislation and court cases evolved that initial state. It's really a colony, unlike US States it isn't a sovereign entity unto itself, and is essentially at the mercy of congress with respect to self-governance and other things.