Re: Number Portability

SaskTel has been more than anal about providing local numbers to VoIP
providers for as long as I have been in the business. (No apologies to
those working there, it is the upper management types that are
completely anal)

BUZ

Nels Nielson wrote:

> Yeah. Shaw is already porting numbers from Sasktel, but from a
> discussion with a Shaw service rep earlier this week I learned that
> Sasktel is being anal about it (with apologies to those who work
> there) and making it difficult to get your old number from them so you
> can use it with Shaw's digital phone.
>
> On 12/7/06, Scott Wunsch <slg@tracking.wunsch.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 06-Dec-2006 at 17:31:34 -0600, Brock Campbell wrote:
>>
>> > Just wondering if anyone out in the local geekosphere knows when
>> number
>> > portability is coming to Saskatchewan
>>
>> The answer is different for landlines and for cellular numbers. For
>> cellular, I've seen deadlines of March 14th, 2007 for some provinces,
>> and
>> September 12th for the rest of the country (we're in "the rest of the
>> country"). http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/11661.cfm
>>
>> As for landlines, I expect to be doing it in the next few weeks, and I
>> think Shaw may already be doing it in Saskatoon.
>>
>> --
>> Take care,
>> Scott \\'unsch
>>
>> ... Borg-er King: We do it our way! Yours is irrelevant.
>
Received on Thu Dec 7 13:27:13 2006