said by wcweaver:said by Trev:Porting from anywhere to anywhere should be no problem as long as they support your rate centre.
I wish that was true. Comcast Digital Voice has about a dozen companies they will port from. If your provider is not on that list, you are out of luck.
The magic words are as Trev said, "as long as they support your rate centre".
Han Solo: "What is it? Some kind of local trouble?"
Obi-Wan: "Let's just say we'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements."
Han: "Well, that's the trick, isn't it?"
As it happens, the OP is in Toronto, and almost certainly should be able to port from Voip.MS to the mobile carrier Fido.
Fido's website drop-down list is only going to list major competitors, not multiple VoIP providers. So the OP may have to call Fido or go to a Fido store in person, to do the port.
[Why the Canadians have a mobile provider named after a dog is puzzling. If Fido ever sold Dish service that would get even weirder (Fido's Dish)].
said by wcweaver:I wish that was true. Comcast Digital Voice has about a dozen companies they will port from. If your provider is not on that list, you are out of luck.
IIRC your situation is the result of a rather unusual combination events, relating to which CLECs serve your rate center, and as I recall (I might be wrong) CallCentric managed to get a number that is in your LATA even though not in the local rate center. Again IIRC, Anveo was not able to port your original number at all.
But sad to say, I think your situation was a little unusual. One might compare it to the fact that the Isle of Man, although associated with the United Kingdom, is not part of the European Union....
