Re: Number Portability

Again, not being familiar with how NXX are provided to both Sasktel
and the competitive carriers, I couldn't tell you why it's been so
difficult for VOIP providers to obtain Saskatchewan numbers.

I do recall at some point being told, at least with wireless, that
there was a regulatory agency with fingers in the pie. This may or
may not apply to landline like it does to wireless - and I may be
misunderstanding or misremembering the details, but;

When a range of local saskatchewan numbers are released for public or
private use (Sasktel, Bell, Shaw, Vonage, Rogers, Fido, etc) there's
an approval and request process involved. That would means that even
for a new range of #'s for Sasktel - they need to be approved. Which
would lead me to believe, assuming my limited understanding of the
process is accurate, that the resistance to providing local numbers to
competitors is infact NOT big bad SaskTel sticking it to competitors
just because they want to hamper any potential competition.

That being said, I have no idea what regulatory agency would be
involved - and if it's provincial or federal. It wouldn't suprise me
to be told that the CRTC was involved, but I'm honestly not sure.

On 12/8/06, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:12:17AM -0600, Keith Snape wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Kettle to pot: you're black!
>
> We've heard first hand on this list from another competitive local carrier
> that SaskTel appears to make it dificult/impossible for competitive carriers
> to get Saskatchewan numbers, something SaskTel has been required to do for
> a few years. Their resistance has to providing local numbers for competitve
> carriers is not a technical difficulty, it's purely a business issue. Why
> should we expect SaskTel to be less resistive to number portability?
>
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> Dave
>
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Received on Fri Dec 8 13:11:44 2006