Vonage are working on it in the UK and already have it I believe in the USA.

"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> As VoIP beds down and people get comfortable with the services etc
> there will come a point where number portability becomes an issue that
> restrains the growth of the market.
>
> There was a flurry of activivity by OFCOM last year
> http://www.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/groups/nvs_index/
> which seemed to be saying that if a provider offerred a PATS (Publicly
> Available Telephone Service) then in a letter dated 20/12/04 stated
>
> "Where the service provided to its subscribers is a PATS service which
> complies with the Interim PATS Policy, a communications provider is
> obliged to provide Number Portability in the circumstances provided
> for in General Condition 18.1 of the General Conditions of
> Entitlement."
>
> so I'm confused - do we have number portability or don't we ?
> which if any VoIP services classify themselves as PATS ?
>
> Phil
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