I would like a comment from people in germany whether the same rules exists for enterprise-based TDM-based PBX:es where a company (based in Frankfurt for example) have numbers one can dial direct which is located outside of Frankfurt. If you don't know, please ask someone. I.e. what I have found is that these "rules" which exists in the "traditional world" are violated already now in many many cases, and I am kind of concerned that a provider have to follow so many rules when IP is carrier when they don't have to if traditional telephony is in use. paf On Aug 20, 2004, at 08:10, Chris Heinze wrote:
hi!
seems like regtp (.de regulator) starts to proceed against voip providers using +49 numbers for voip.
a german article: http://golem.de/0408/33112.html
basically the article says that regtp approached two of the more-well-known voip providers in germany and ordered them to stop using +49 numbers for voip users that 'are not located in the region of the number' (i.e. a 'user from duesseldorf' (i have no information on what regtp thinks that means) is not allowed to get a number from hamburg).
the german non-regional prefix is currently still not available. so basically that means that german voip providers cannot use +49 numbers anymore. a non-german gateway or gateway-provider might help - sorry carsten, your folks might soon have to dial a foreign-cc-number to reach you from pstn via voip...
i beleive the two providers are present here - if so, any further comments/info from that side would of course be more than interesting... :)
kind regards,
Chris Heinze