How Long Before Google Sees a Land Line Ported Through T Mobile
dircom:
Still not sure how to use the referenced web site. Mom mom lives in Tulsa, 918-747
there are a lot of Bandwith 918-xxx listed in Tulsa
but if I put in 918-747 only Southwestern Bell (now AT&T) is listed at the Tulsa Riverside Switch
Does 918-747 have to list Bandwith or can Bandwidth just be listed in Tulsa?
thanks
Bob123456789:
This is the first time I've used the site, so, I am not the expert. My understaning is that 123 XXX the XXX needs to have Bandwidth listed as a provider.
In case you are interested. Aveneo was not able to port my number. Callcentric has assured me that they can. However I have not tried since their costs are a lot higher than Anveo.
lhm.:
Port to voip.ms for $25.00. (pay as you go) Very good company.
Use GV911.com for 911 services, $12.00 per year.
I use both, works for me.
Edit: Anveo will refund on account closing.
SteveInWA:
I'm the author (Bluescat) of the Google Voice forum post CoalMinerRetired referenced. I'm glad to see somebody found it useful.
To the people who were/are confused about this topic, a little background helps: Think of the land-line (including traditional POTS and VoIP) telephone numbering system as a hierarchy: First, there's the country code, which we usually ignore, since we're talking about US numbers. Then, there are area codes (what the localcallingguide.com website calls NPA), and then the local exchanges (NXX). Finally, within each local exchange, there are blocks of numbers, for example, NPA-NXX-1xxx, -2xxx, -3xxx, etc.
After telco deregulation, the Incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs, like the former Bell companies) had to open up their exchanges to allow competitors (CLECs) to co-locate their own switches, so the CLECs could also sell service. So, after that, there's now an assortment of LECs who each have "presence", or ports, on switches in local exchanges, and they have assigned ranges (blocks) of numbers they can lease out.
It's important to understand that even within a given local exchange, different CLECs only have access to certain number blocks. So, bandwidth.com may have 4xxx and 7xxx and some other carriers have other blocks.
SO, just because person X, living in exchange NPA-NXX- may have been successful at porting over from a cell provider to GV, another person may strike out because bandwidth.com ran out of numbers, or they don't have any numbers at all (no presence in that exchange).
Finally, note that GV and bandwidth.com reclaim numbers that people abandon (stop using for 9+ months). You might eventually be able to port if one of those slots becomes available.
Bob123456789:
lhm,
Why do you use voip.ms for your pay as you go calls but GV911.com for E911?
I have a constraint in that I am using an Obihai 100 which only allows 2 service providers. I want to keep Google Voice. I am currently using Anveo for E911 which costs a total of $0.84/month.
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