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Portability, smortability

As Engadget reports in “Number portability for all!”, US telecom rules now require all carriers to support consumers in moving their number from their current cell service to new service with a different operator.

Well, at least in theory, but everyone I know who’s tried has cried themselves to sleep at night after pulling out all of their hair. Is it just me, or is LNP a broken promise so far?

(Yes, I’m suffering through this problem right now as I’m trying to keep my current mobile number while switching to new Nokia corporate mobile service. How could you tell? :-)

This was written by Bill Day. Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 5:07 pm. Filed under Wireless. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Darcy wrote:

    I moved from AT&T (after two of the worst customer experiences ever) to T-Mobile and the change took effect immediately. For me, LNP worked flawlessly. I was up on T-Mobile in 24 hrs.

    Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 12:24 am | Permalink

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