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> [Note: crossposted to uk.telecom, uk.telecom.broadband and
> uk.telecom.voip]
>
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/skype down again/>:
>
> Up to 10,000 Skype customers have to change their SkypeIn number by
> 20 December, an email to customers advised last night.
>
> By way of recompense, it also offered affected punters a years free
> service with voicemail and a grovelling apology.
>
> According to the email, Skype is having to return some of the 0207
> SkypeIn numbers to their suppliers, though it makes no mention of
> why, or to whom, these numbers need to be returned.
>
> It seems numbers starting 020 7870 are affected, which Ofcom shows
> are allocated to a company called Gamma Telecom. Skype leased these
> numbers from an intermediary called GCI Telecom, who tell us that they
> are still in negotiations with Skype regarding the numbers, and have
> promised us a fuller explanation real soon now.
>
> Skypes message board is full of complaints from users about to lose
> their numbers, who have printed up business cards or even ...

> had to
> pulp a mailshot to 3,000 people, already stuffed, stamped, and ready
> to go, with first class stamps stuck on.

> --
> Martin Jay

> [Note: crossposted to uk.telecom, uk.telecom.broadband and
> uk.telecom.voip]
>
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/skype down again/>:
>
> Up to 10,000 Skype customers have to change their SkypeIn number by
> 20 December, an email to customers advised last night.
>
> By way of recompense, it also offered affected punters a years free
> service with voicemail and a grovelling apology.
>
> According to the email, Skype is having to return some of the 0207
> SkypeIn numbers to their suppliers, though it makes no mention of
> why, or to whom, these numbers need to be returned.
>
> It seems numbers starting 020 7870 are affected, which Ofcom shows
> are allocated to a company called Gamma Telecom. Skype leased these
> numbers from an intermediary called GCI Telecom, who tell us that they
> are still in negotiations with Skype regarding the numbers, and have
> promised us a fuller explanation real soon now.
>
> Skypes message board is full of complaints from users about to lose
> their numbers, who have printed up business cards or even ...had to
> pulp a mailshot to 3,000 people, already stuffed, stamped, and ready
> to go, with first class stamps stuck on.
> --
> Martin Jay