From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   XPost: nyc.transit   
      
   Phil Kane  wrote:   
   >On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:06:58 -0600, Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
      
   >>That's possible now?  I thought numbers were only portable within   
   >>a service type--and within a given rate center.   
      
   >As I found out "the hard way" recently, my landline telephone number   
   >was not portable into a different rate center, even if the location is   
   >across the street.   
      
   That's a regulatory aspect of LNP, not a technological barrier. Electronic   
   switches are extremely flexible. I guess it's prevented on the off chance   
   that someone will re-install an electro-mechanical switch.   
      
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