On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:39:35 GMT, "Paul Westwell" <paul@nospam.me.uk>
wrote:

>True but I guess OFCOM would comedown on heavily on BT for example if they
>resisted number portability with Vonage for example. I cannot see Vonage (or
>other SIP providers) not wanting number portability as I would expect them
>to gain far more then they would lose on entering a new market.

do Vonage claim to be offerring PATS* in the UK would appear to be the
question then, if so then portability should be easy.

* PATS is an EU concept for "publicly available telephone service"
which has wording around 112/999 emergency calls and other things like
"resilience of the network". I believe that exclusive use of the
public internet for connectivity does not meet the resilience
criteria without a fallover to an analogue line or other circuit.

Phil
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