On 08/20/2012 11:26 PM, Matt Yaklin wrote:
So there might be a small chance a cell phone company may go through all the trouble but not a CLEC which would find it unprofitable?
The number can probably be ported to a mainstream mobile carrier, but it would be an awful lot of trouble to do so as an end-user, hard to do without a contract, might involve multiple lines for multiple numbers, etc.
Only a few handful of small independent ILECs left here which serve such a tiny amount of people we probably never ran into this problem yet. The whole yokel thing. But I would have to talk to my boss to get a clearer picture of what problems we would run into trying to get a SIP trunk into their territory.
Yep, this is one of those yokel edge cases, and Windstream are not even the worst I've seen, by far. -- Alex -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave Suite 106 Decatur, GA 30030 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com/