Yeah, that’s right. The amount of stuff tied to the legacy companies’ identifiers, OCNs, namesakes and so forth is stupefying. It is completely impractical to change at all.
— Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors. > On Oct 23, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Jeff Shultz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd bet that taxes and business licences enter into it. For some of those > companies there is a lot of paper that goes back a lot of years in various > federal, state, and local file cabinets. It's sometimes easier to simply use > the old names that already have a legal existence in an area than try to > change the names on all of that paperwork and maps.... > > That would be my guess. That and maybe intellectual property, keeping > trademarks and names alive so that someone else can't pop up using it. > >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 3:32 PM Peter Beckman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm curious why companies like T-Mobile and Inteliquent/Onvoy/Voyant >> continue to retain company names and corporate entities long after their >> brands have been retired, acquired, and generally shell entities holding >> phone numbers. >> >> Some examples: >> >> T-Mobile -> Omnipoint, Aerial Communications, Suncom, Powertel, >> Sprint, Eliska Wireless Ventures Subsidiary I >> Sprint -> O1 Communications, US Telepacific >> AT&T -> New Cingular Wireless, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, >> Bell South, Southern Bell, Ameritech >> Verizon -> Cellco Partnership, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile >> Inteliquent -> Radiant IQ, Onvoy, Voyant, Broadvox, Layered, Neutral >> Tandem >> CenturyLink -> United Telephone, Qwest >> Spectrum -> Charter Fiberlink >> >> So many of these brands are dead and acquired, yet these companies live on >> and own phone numbers. Cingular died in 2006. Radiant IQ acquired in 2015. >> Bell Atlantic went away in 2000 with Verizon acquiring Bell Atlantic and >> GTE. >> >> Why? What benefit does this provide the owning/operating companies? Legal >> insulation? >> >> Beckman >> >> PS -- This all started when I saw Inteliquent request VoIP Numbering for >> Radiant IQ in June 2020, a company they acquired in 2015, and generally >> does not exist in any meaningful way to customers or consumers, residential >> or business. This industry in the US is weird. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Beckman Internet Guy >> [email protected] https://www.angryox.com/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > -- > Jeff Shultz > > > Like us on Social Media for News, Promotions, and other information!! > > > > > > > > > > *** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete > this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be > secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, > destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender > therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the > contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. *** > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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