Cell Phones Companies Fight Number Portability

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Cell Phones Companies Fight Number Portability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 9, 2003 @07:48PM from the shocker dept.

andy1307 writes "The Washington Post is reporting that wireless companies are opposing mobile number portability. According to the law as it is being written, customers would be able to transfer wired phone numbers to a wireless service. Not surprisingly, Verizon is the wireless company opposing the law."

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jiggle by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 19:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

hork
1. Re:jiggle by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 20:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  hork is not a word.
2. Re:jiggle by SimStupid · 2003-04-09 21:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  but jiggle-hork is . . . oh, right, nevermind
FP? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 19:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

OP FP!
jiggledy spits by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 19:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

get your ass over to jesusgeeks.net NOW BITCH! they deleted my god damn corpse flopping rape story.
1. Re:jiggledy spits by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 21:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  What the fuck is wrong with that site?
  It looks like Slashdot, but it doesn't have any real content like goatse.cx or tubgirl links and there aren't any trolls!!
Re:The US Again... by boer · 2003-04-09 19:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Maybe Slashdot should adopt a category for US centric news?

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attention americans by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 20:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This sadaam hussein.. We will hold you hostage so you can keep your #. (Convenient store clerk voice) Thank you come again
1. Re:attention americans by Saddam+Hussein · 2003-04-09 21:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No, this is the real Saddam. You are just one of my many doubles.
So we can keep our hash? by Nethergoat · 2003-04-09 20:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn, I think you just earned yourself the libertarian nomination for the 2004 presidential.
Re:The US Again... by inaeldi · 2003-04-09 20:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It'd probably be named "All Stories".
Big Brother wants you to use cellphones by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 21:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't forget that the cellphone technology is real gift to the Big Brother.
1) If your cellphone is on and you're carrying it, your location can be tracked down to an accuracy of a street address. Why do you think Iraq and US forbid the use of unsecure cellphones in the field?
2) Even if your turn the cellphone off, they can still listen through it. The only way to be sure this does not happen is to take out the battery or not to carry a cellphone at all. I heartily recommend the second alternative.
Official: Transmeta is DYING! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 21:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Since all my story submissions have always been rejected, I'm going to submit it right here! Transmeta totters at $1 level
Chip firm to advise investors next week
By Cher Price: Thursday 10 April 2003, 09:32
CHIP FIRM Transmeta (TMTA) saw its shares decline by nearly seven per cent yesterday and its price closed on Wall Street last night at a lacklustre $1.
It's not the lowest Transmeta has ducked to, in mid October its share price was a lousy 74 cents. But it's a far cry from its heady days in May 2002 when the firm saw its price top $25.
Yesterday chip analyst firm In-Stat said that Intel's share in the notebook market was assured, despite competition from Via, AMD and Transmeta, although its average selling prices have declined.
We'll discover more when TMTA holds a conference call for investors a week from today.
Transmeta has recently announced some design wins, but so far has failed to really make any breakthrough matching the hype generated when it first was floated.
But it has some interesting patents and this may be the eventual saviour for the chip company, faced with continuing pressure from Intel, particularly in the thin and light marketplace.