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(Unverified)Oct 14th 2009 10:03AM
pg808, don't know if you, or anyone else has noticed, but the ONLY VOIP providers that offer 808 area code phone numbers are "LOCAL" companies. There isn't one single non-local Internet Phone provider anywhere in the world that provides 808 phone numbers. Do a Google search and no information as to why this is the situation will come up. But "why" is this? It has been years since the first Vonage and other Internet phone services became available. In the early days of Vonage, if you tried to get an 808 number, they'd tell you that they were working on it and that 808 numbers should be added sometime soon. Well, here we are several years later, a LONG ways from "soon", and it still hasn't happened. Something is obviously going on with this, since we are just about the only state in the entire country with no local Internet phone numbers available. Personally, I wouldn't hold much hope for Google becoming the first one to offer us this service. I don't think it's going to happen. I think this has something to do with local telecommunications companies, and maybe even government leaders too (the good ol' boys), wanting to keep the VOIP money inside Hawaii and lock up the local market in order to keep outside competition from coming in. This certainly is not a technical issue! I could be wrong but this situation looks very suspicious to me.