[Hidden-tech] Cable/telephone question

[Shel Horowitz]

I have friends who kept their Shutesbury numbers when moving to Amherst,
etc. I think Sam has the best idea. Call back and get someone else--and if
that doesn't work, ask to speak with their supervisor. It's one town over,
for goodness sake.

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Gyepi SAM
<gyepi-hidden-tec at praxis-sw.com>wrote:

>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:59:00PM -0500, Harry Flood wrote:
> > We are in the process of moving our office from Belchertown to Amherst.
> We
> > have had our Belchertown phone (323-xxxx) for a number of years through
> > Charter. We will have the new service with Comcast.
> >
> > Comcast is telling us they cannot retain our present phone number. Is
> this
> > true? They did say we could retain some level of service with Charter and
> > forward calls, which seems like a kluge-y option at best. I thought there
> > was easy portability of phone numbers.
>
> Could be a policy restriction (business class vs residential) and not a
> technical one.
> It may be worth querying Comcast about this. FWIW, I've dealt with Comcast
> over the years and have discovered that asking the same question of
> different
> representatives will frequently yield different answers.
>
> Over the past 13+ years, I've kept the same numbers and gone through 3 or 4
> providers. Comcast was one of them and they ported my number from Verizon.
>
> -Gyepi
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