[enum-wg] repost: Proposal for non-geographic ENUM E.164 UPTS for the general public

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>This is the major reason why +87810 is still not up
>and running. If you use a national number, the number
>can at least by routed via the country as a default.
>
>         Wether you have issues with non-geographical E.164 or not depends 
> a lot
>         of what regulation there is on E.164 numbers in the country code you
>         want numbers in. Other examples of issues include portability to 
> other
>         providers.
>
>         Example: Sweden (+46) require portability between providers of voice
>         services, but do not have geographical portability (yet). This 
> imply if
>         you as an operator in Sweden you have to allow people to move their
>         number both to and from you.

Which is exactly the way the US and Canada works but we have have a flat 
numbering space which means you can take your wire line and port to 
wireless as well.

Patrik remind me .. does Sweden use a Database model or is it simply call 
forwarding form the originating carriers Switch .

>
>         My point is not that your idea is wrong, but that you have to 
> take into
>         account a number of different issues...
>
>         Can you be more specific on what the rules are for E.164 numbers in
>         your neck of the woods?
>
>              paf
>
>         On Aug 9, 2004, at 16:53, Chris Heinze wrote:
>
>         > hi!
>         >
>         > the company i'm with is providing services in the voip-area, 
> and we had
>         > and still have our problems with the situation with 
> telephone-numbers
>         > for voip-services in general. we were observing that other 
> companies
>         > have the same and similar problems, and that several - mostly 
> quite
>         > ugly
>         > - workarounds are being started, but that's all not very 
> promising.
>         > also
>
>


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