At Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:31:45 -0500 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > 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. 1/2 of Shutesbury is (as far the phone company is concerned) Amherst (the other 1/2 is Montague). In effect, Shutesbury and Leverette *do not exist* as far as the telephone system is concerned -- the southern halves are part of Amherst and the northern halves are part of Montague (and the southern halves have DSL and the northern halves don't have DSL -- this is part of the same structure and relates to where the wires connect to). Just like Wendell, New Salem, Warwick, and part of Erving are really logically part of Orange. The phone company *long ago* drew a set of 'boundries': these were originally 'exchanges' now known as 'Central Offices' (COs). The idea of 'one town over' is really *meaningless* as far as the telephone sysem is concerened, since the telephone system is not really based on the idea of towns (or really any political boundries). I am sure it wouldn't be possible for me to retain my *Wendell* phone number, should I move to Shutesbury or Montague, since Shutesbury and Montague are in the 413 area code and Wendell is in the 978 area code. Both Shutesbury and Montague are 'one town over' from Wendell. This is really just a more extreem example of how the phone system works. (I am talking about land lines -- cell phones don't have geographical boundries.) The solution would be to yank the phone off the 'copper' and port it to a virtual (hosted) PBX and go to a purely digital system, as suggested by Crocker. > > _________________________________________________ > Shel Horowitz - Green Business Profitability Expert > Helping you find the value in your values since 1981 - because > Green isn't just good for the planet--it's *great* for your bottom line > > Contact me to reach Green, socially conscious consumers with > marketing that has THEM calling YOU" > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://greenandprofitable.com/ http://guerrillamarketinggoesgreen.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Latest award-winning, best-selling (8th) book: > Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) > _________________________________________________ > > > > 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. 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