Comments on: South Korea to let landline phone users switch to Internet telephone without changing numbers http://www.intomobile.com/2007/12/27/south-korea-to-let-landline-phone-users-switch-to-internet-telephone-without-changing-numbers.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:36:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: JaXX http://www.intomobile.com/2007/12/27/south-korea-to-let-landline-phone-users-switch-to-internet-telephone-without-changing-numbers.html/comment-page-1/#comment-127753 JaXX Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:04:05 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/12/27/south-korea-to-let-landline-phone-users-switch-to-internet-telephone-without-changing-numbers.html#comment-127753 ISPs here in France mostly permit this since a couple of years now. the one called "Free" mainly. I have directly opened a line using an IP number (09 code) so I'm not concerned, by my father for instance had the choice to get his landline number 'ported' to his voip line (actually, it gives him two numbers for one phone). There is a quirk though. Landline number are geographically linked, cut into 5 big regions (paris/center and each 'corner') so if you move too far, you lose for sure your number. Anyways, people are used have VoIP number and many like me don't even have a classic landline anymore (Digital HD TV + DVB Tuner + PVR + 24Mbs ADSL2+ + Free phone to 70 countries for 30€/month, who cares about classical landline ? :-) ) The next step will be portability between VoIP operators/ISP's ... that'll be something ! JaXX./. ISPs here in France mostly permit this since a couple of years now. the one called “Free” mainly. I have directly opened a line using an IP number (09 code) so I’m not concerned, by my father for instance had the choice to get his landline number ‘ported’ to his voip line (actually, it gives him two numbers for one phone).

There is a quirk though. Landline number are geographically linked, cut into 5 big regions (paris/center and each ‘corner’) so if you move too far, you lose for sure your number.

Anyways, people are used have VoIP number and many like me don’t even have a classic landline anymore (Digital HD TV + DVB Tuner + PVR + 24Mbs ADSL2+ + Free phone to 70 countries for 30€/month, who cares about classical landline ? :-) )

The next step will be portability between VoIP operators/ISP’s … that’ll be something !

JaXX./.

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