phone number listings and Verizon

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VZW has publicly stated (included in several of the articles on this topic)
that they oppose the directory listing project -- VZW states that if a
customer wants to be listed, their cellular number can be listed in the
local landline white pages by request.

"noman" <noman@klassikal.net> wrote in message
news:2h9dheFaesodU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Yesterday's Financial Times had an interesting article on a plan to
> compile a listing of all domestic cell phone numbers. Apparently this
> directory is expected to be available "early next year". The
> following paragraph gave me a bit of start:
>
> "In Congress, legislation has already been introduced that would
> prohibit wirelss companies from listing numbers without customer
> permission, or for charging customers to keep unlisted numbers. All
> the big US wireless carriers except Verizon plan to give users the
> option to be listed."
>
> That last sentence is a little ambiguous. It could mean VZW is not
> planning to cooperate with this directory project at all, and that
> even those subscribers who might want to be listed won't be given that
> option. But I have the feeling it means the opposite: they will
> cooperate, and they won't give us the chance to opt out (unless
> legally compelled to do so, which is unlikely to be the case soon
> enough to matter).
>
> I hope I'm wrong, because in general I've been happy with VZW service.
> But there's no way I would continue my service if my number is listed
> without my consent.
>
>
>

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"tgw" </dev/null@spam.com> wrote in message
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> VZW has publicly stated (included in several of the articles on this
topic)
> that they oppose the directory listing project -- VZW states that if a
> customer wants to be listed, their cellular number can be listed in the
> local landline white pages by request.
>

What?! I could never get them to list my cell phone number in the local
landline phone book! I complained about this and was told to get a listing I
would have to buy a remote call forwarding number for $16.00 / month, which
would be listed and the calls to it would be forwarded to my cell phone.

I paid for one, and then I discovered that they didn't list the number I
paid for specifically for that purpose because it didn't meet some deadline
even though they assured me that I had it in in time for the phone books to
be printed. The following year they used the very same excuse and I was
furious. After paying for it for well over a year I never got a listing and
I was pretty ticked. I had to cancel the stupid number and go through the
hassle of changing my information with all of my contacts all over again.
What a pain!