Originally Posted by ismi

Not quite a VP user yet - I just got an email saying I should be getting my Ojo soon. But for me, it's not even so much about portability as it is transparency. If I can give hearing people a phone number that they can call that connects to VRS and then to me, that's great; my understanding is that for many VP providers, under the current system, they'd have to call a phone number, then enter my "VP number". Which works, but takes explanation, doesn't fit on some forms, is cumbersome on a business card, and so on. It's a hassle, and makes it that much less likely that Joe Hearing is going to call me.

That, and if I'm a VCO user, I can make outgoing calls where the hearing user is unaware that I'm doing anything special. Having a real phone number would mean I take take incoming calls the same way.