PhonePower has hidden fees for GV transfer
SteveInWA:
RE: fees, these service providers are already charging extremely low-profit prices for service. Their CLECs (the phone carriers who provide numbers and porting services to these SIP service providers) charge them fees to port numbers, as it does require manual labor. Now, you can complain about it not being listed in 24-point bold font, but it's a legitimate, industry-wide practice. It used to be more like $35, so BFD.
RE: the $3 unlock fee. That procedure is in place to protect you, the GV user, from a sleazy practice known as "slamming" whereby carriers can port your number away without your permission. The requirement to have you make a credit card purchase is mainly to prove your identity and take positive action to port the number, and the fee probably also covers some expense Google incurs with it's carriers, just as the SIP providers do. Again, BFD.
The service providers aren't making a profit on this; they're just recovering a legitimate cost.
Michael_Reeder:
Quote from: SteveInWA on April 13, 2014, 06:23:55 pm
RE: fees, these service providers are already charging extremely low-profit prices for service. Their CLECs (the phone carriers who provide numbers and porting services to these SIP service providers) charge them fees to port numbers, as it does require manual labor. Now, you can complain about it not being listed in 24-point bold font, but it's a legitimate, industry-wide practice. It used to be more like $35, so BFD.
RE: the $3 unlock fee. That procedure is in place to protect you, the GV user, from a sleazy practice known as "slamming" whereby carriers can port your number away without your permission. The requirement to have you make a credit card purchase is mainly to prove your identity and take positive action to port the number, and the fee probably also covers some expense Google incurs with it's carriers, just as the SIP providers do. Again, BFD.
The service providers aren't making a profit on this; they're just recovering a legitimate cost.
Steve -- I largely agree with you (except I'd like to see some font on these practices). But, yeah -- the difference between totally free, a one-time $3 charge, or even a one-time $15 charge is no BFD. We have it pretty sweet regardless.
-- Michael
PeteMoss:
While not exactly the same situation, when I switched to PP from GV, I specified the new phone number be spoofed in the CID with the GV number. A month later I decided that I wanted the PP number CID un-spoofed. I was expecting a charge for that but there was none.
Pepi:
Can't buy a good case of beer for 15 bucks
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