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Angelc19:
The only problems I have had with VL faxing was free but now is added as a separate cost per page, I use it only a couple times a month. it's not a big deal. Plus the rate increase and decrease. I haven't been able to change my out bound caller id name, said it could take weeks, months. VL Chat always works, questions are answered etc.
My question is what happens to your phone number if any of these providers goes under? Is it gone or does it go to another provider? Can you port it back to a cell phone?
Thanks
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Angelc19 on February 08, 2015, 07:04:02 am
The only problems I have had with VL faxing was free but now is added as a separate cost per page, I use it only a couple times a month. it's not a big deal. Plus the rate increase and decrease. I haven't been able to change my out bound caller id name, said it could take weeks, months. VL Chat always works, questions are answered etc.
My question is what happens to your phone number if any of these providers goes under? Is it gone or does it go to another provider? Can you port it back to a cell phone?
Thanks
Here's some background: all phone numbers (in the USA) are originally issued to various Local Exchange Carriers, or LECs, in blocks, according to the North American Numbering Plan Administration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan
When a customer ports a number into some other carrier, no matter how many times that number is moved, the number still belongs to the original LEC -- that LEC is simply "lending" the number to the subsequent carrier(s), at your request. At no point do you, the customer "own" the number; the LEC owns it. If you cancel service on that number, (or, if the current provider goes out of business), the number would be returned to the owning LEC.
I'm not aware of a regulation to handle the scenario if/when a carrier goes out of business, but, if the carrier had sufficient time and money to work with their customers, they would notify their customers, and allow the customers to port the number out to whatever other carrier they wish.
The only (small) risk, is if a carrier suddenly went completely bankrupt, "closing their doors". In that scenario, it might be tricky to port the number, since the new carrier might refuse, if you, the customer can't prove you had active service on that number. Carriers have to follow porting rules, which, among other things, attempt to prevent fraudulent porting of numbers without permission of the current customer (a practice known as "number slamming").
simpleAnswers:
I have to say that the summary that Vestalink would struggle to surge like before is correct. But I think it also applies to practically all the other Voip services phonepower, anveo etc.
Just like most users, I too was scrambling to find an alternative and was relieved to learn that there would be no shut off.
I don't see myself renewing my services with callcentric, phonepower, vestalink or anveo. Yes I was desperately looking for an alternative for a looooonngg time. I paid 2yrs for each of those guys so come 2016 unless GV is dead, I won't be paying up. Primarily because, all of the above did not offer me what I got from GV.
Yes Vestalink will try to pan "Official GV Support", but truth is Obihai is counting the dough ever since they got GV to not go away. And lets be honest, most of the users flocking to Vestalink were originally looking for a GV alternative and on the surface they looked like a good alternative. But to me they were just an alternative and due to the change of heart, I don't need an alternative to GV so that kinda says it all
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