Phil,

I'm not sure......

They do have failover to analogue in the form of if the VOIP is unavailable
then all calls will be diverted to a number of your choice (not sure if that
covers the PATS requirement?)

They also provide 112/999

Regards,

Paul




"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:di65e1tlfi1ufkj8bhiuo8j3fg7qmedea1@4ax.com...
> 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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