[oclug] POTS -> SIP providers in Canada?

[miden]

Thank-you to Brad Barnett & Lucas Mitchell for pointing out legitimate 
uses for this service but I think the following quotes from earlier 
emails will point out why this could be perceived as facilitating 
deception (much snippage here):

> Mark Harrison said:
>> ...I could show how someone working out of their
>> bedroom could appear to have a London Office and
>> a North American office....

> Brad Barnett said:
>> Quite a few even offer outgoing CallerID support, so you can
>> appear to be at any virtual number, when you call someone.

I have no problem with out-in-the-open use but I do have a problem with 
someone wanting to appear to have a presence that they do not in fact 
have and I would like to once again ask my original question (re-worded) 
- how is a consumer to determine if the number they have been given is 
indeed a local number (for example) rather than a relay, or that the 
person who is calling them is calling from a local number, if this has 
not been spelled out by the business or individual they are dealing 
with? This service does seem to make it much easier to deceive.

I really do thank you both for pointing out legitimate uses.

But sign me 'poor schmuck consumer fearing one more reason to only do 
business with local walk-in businesses'.

-m