🚀 go-pugleaf

smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
>On 5/28/2013 6:14 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
>>>On 5/28/2013 4:05 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>>>>Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>>>>>bje@ripco.com says...

>>>>>>Sprint seems to cater to the high-end, where unlimited everything is more
>>>>>>important than competitive pricing. Even their "family plans" are hard to
>>>>>>swallow.

>>>>>Pagepluscellular.com has unlimited pricing plans that seem reasonable
>>>>>and no contract.  I have been using them for almost 4 years now.  Since
>>>>>I hate talking on the telephone I keep to the pay as you go minutes and

>>>>I'm going to guess you have nobody to talk to in the first place.

>>>>I don't want to try to port my number which I like over to rats&rodents
>>>>cellullar.biz

>>>>Has anybody ported a cell number to google voice and then back again, if
>>>>this is even possible?

>>>>I do have a work phone, which sucks, but is free.

>>>Porting is law. You can port your number whichever and whenever the fuck
>>>many times you want to, assuming the accounts you're porting away from
>>>are in good standing.

>>>I have ported numbers to and fro Google Voice without issue.

>>Mandatory participation in porting is required in some instances, but
>>not others. Porting participation is definitely NOT mandatory with VoIP.
>>VoIP isn't even regulated by FCC in most instances, although it is
>>with cable.

>>Google Voice might indeed choose to drop out of porting without regulatory
>>consequence.

>Sort of; VoIP carriers _are_ now covered by the FCC regulations for LNP. 
>The problem is that Google refuses to acknowledge that they are one as 
>such. So you're correct that they could opt to not honor a port-out 
>request, but I think it would be somewhat suicidal of them to do so. 
>There are no examples of them refusing to do so "just because" to date.

Google Voice may not be a carrier at all. The numbers themselves are
from bandwidth.com, which is the CLEC, not Google Voice (from the
traffic routing lists).

I admit I'm not familiar with this. Which FCC order requires VoIP to
participate in LNP generally?