Re: Number Portability: POTS, VoIP, and Cellular

Apr 21, 2006 0 Replies


1. Can a VoIP number be ported to cellular?


> 2. Can a VoIP number be ported to POTS?
> 3. Can a VoIP number be ported to another VoIP provider?
> 4. Can a cellular number be ported to POTS?
> 5. Can a cellular number be ported to VoIP?
> 6. Can a cellular number be ported to another cellular provider? (I
> think that the answer is yes.)
> 7. Can a POTS number be ported to cellular? (I think that the
> answer is yes.)
> 8. Can a POTS number be ported to VoIP? (I think that the answer is > yes.)

The answers to all of those questions should be yes, except perhaps in a few rural areas that don't have portability yet.


For portability purposes, there's no such thing as a VoIP number. VoIP carriers contract with CLECs for their numbers (or might be a CLEC in AT&T's case), and CLEC numbers are POTS numbers.


I've ported a number from Vonage to Lingo, nothing special about the process.


R's,


John

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