"Alasdair" <mail@bobaxter.coo.uk> wrote in message
news:mft0p25rdt3lhah9339j9fofq76tp8gk3i@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:02:37 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Never going to happen. Pigs and aviation spring to mind.
> >
> >Ivor
>
> It will not happen if people accept the status quo. If I register a
> domain, I get to keep it as long as I pay the renewal fee (a fairly
> nominal sum) every two years. I can then continue to use that
domain
> even if I change ISP or fall out with my ISP. It is registered in
my
> name at Nominet.
>
> By the same token, I should be able to register my phone number with
a
> central body (say, Ofcom) and use it with whoever provides my
> telephone service or retain it unused if I so choose.
>
> Why should my provider hold me to ransom by refusing to release my
> telephone number?
>
> I am trying to get a movement off the ground to get Ofcom to change
> the rules so that the end user and not the provider has title to the
> number.



Curiously, not only do the telco own the number, they also own the
copyright to it, so it is technically illegal for anyone other than
them to publish it without having obtained their prior consent.

If the ownership or registration was transferred, what about that
copyright? How does that affect such as letterhead and advertising?


--
Woody

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