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Phone number portability (one carrier to another) is mandated by law. They gave you no problems because they mustn't. GV style portability (a virtual number tha
by joeyo 17y ago
Phone number portability (one carrier to another) is mandated by law. They gave you no problems because they mustn't. GV style portability (a virtual number that works with any carrier) enjoys no such privilege, so they can, and in Apple/AT&T's case, have, blocked it.
- abalashov 17y agoIt's not "a virtual number that works with any carrier." I can assure you that the number is (1) natively homed or (2) ported - to a particular physical, facilities-based carrier (generally a CLEC) at any time. In a lot of places, Google Voice is using bandwidth.com's new CLEC license holdings (after they stopped being a pure Level3 reseller), and probably the usual national-level multibillion dollar folks that are interconnected to everyone, everywhere and have a lot of direct end-office trunking: Global Crossing, XO, Level3, etc.
- abalashov 17y agoFor example, here in Atlanta, my friend has a Google Voice number out of 404-939. If you take a look at the pooling and/or NANPA assignment information for that block, you'll find it's pooled and held by bandwidth.com's new CLEC: http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_prefix.php?npa=404&nxx=939&x=&ocn=®ion=&lata=&switch=&pastdays=0&nextdays=0 http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_prefix.php?npa=404&... You can do an NPAC dip on it and find that it's not ported, so it really is being originated by bandwidth.com's facilities. There's nothing "virtual" about any of this.