From my Google Voice dashboard:
Same story with GV. No local prefixes available, yet nearby, sleepy little towns of ~3,000 people have local numbers available. Sigh. Here’s an explanation:
An “ILEC” is an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier – a local telephone company that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T; a “CLEC” is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier – i.e., (quoting Wikipedia): a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a “carrier”) that competes with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)). If you understand this, you: a) work in the telecommunications industry, and b) need to come to my house immediately and straighten out this situation.
We’ll get through this, but I fear I may end up having to hang onto the land line (albeit on a no frills, basically no long distance plan) so that local contacts don’t have to dial long distance to call us!!! Uh… frustrating.
The ooma Hub and Scout (remote unit) work flawlessly, and sound quality is very good. We just have this one pesky little issue to overcome…
Nothing is simple.
Stay tuned…
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August 29th, 2009 at 8:32 am
You must live in an alternate reality if your friends have local/long distance calling issues. Everything we do is flat rate these days…of course we ditched the land line 7 years ago and never looked back….
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August 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Michael: remember where I live. The internal combustion engine showed up here about 15 years ago. The movie playing at the local theater is Gone With The Wind.
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:13 am
LOL! Somehow I am visualizing Ma & Pa Kettle from the grain and seed still paying for toll calls and that dang long distance….
But when She Who Must Be Obeyed puts her foot down, there’s not much left for any techno-geek to do, but gracefully surrender….
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