Re: Number Portability

I can confirm that the Wireless side of number portability is indeed
March 14th 2007.

As for why wired (landline) number portability is currently so
problematic, I'm not entirely sure - as it's a different department.
I would though wager a guess that it's less a case of being purposely
difficult with Shaw, and more a case of it being so new - and
technically something that is not fully in place yet.

As stated in the linked article earlier, the deadline for having the
infrastructure and procedures in place is Sept 12th 2007 - so it's not
terribly suprising to me that having Shaw request ported numbers now
(nearly a year earlier than the deadline - not to say it can't be done
sooner) is causing complications and delays.

It does amuse me that Shaw's pointing fingers like that.

On 12/7/06, Howard R. Hamilton <Howard.Hamilton@bogend.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
>
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Received on Fri Dec 8 08:12:30 2006