Yet More on Cellular Number Portability

RadBlock writes "The Wireless Supersite has posted an interesting column analyzing number portability. Wireless carriers have been stalling on the availablity of number portability for years now. The final deadline is supposed to be in November, and it will allow you to keep your wireless phone number when you change carriers (one number for life... the ultimate!)"

Comments

well, to each their own

[Anonymous Coward]

one number for life... the ultimate!

I would say sex with twins is the ultimate, but hey, we all have priorities.

Sweet

[g(zerofunk.org)]

Now I can get my 555-FARK phone number.
Er, wait. Wrong website.
g

The Ultimate?

[slagdogg]

one number for life... the ultimate!

It's only the ultimate if you get a cool number ... like (663) 244-7467 ... aka (ONE) BIG-PIMP

Re:The Ultimate?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ugh. Please mod this down... or at least have the courtesy to STOP CALLING ME TO SEE IF IT WORKS. Yes, this is my phone number, and no, I will no longer be answering since I know why the fucking thing started ringing off the fucking hook.

And don't leave a message either, wise ass.

Re:The Ultimate?

[Just Some Guy]

I swear to God, I'm not making this up:

My old data line was 833-8258 - 83FUCKU. When my wife and I got married, she called our telco to see if we could keep the number, but we were moving to a different part of the city and get to get a different prefix. She told the operator that was too bad, because we had this really great number that spelled...

The operator panicked. She called her supervisor, who also panicked. The pulled all numbers containing "38258" from national (well, regional, I guess) circulation, which they apparently do for all numbers known to spell something bad.

I felt kind of bad for causing that to happen. It was a good number.

Re:The Ultimate?

[SeanAhern]

I felt kind of bad for causing that to happen. It was a good number.

I was calling the operator on the phone, and it was like beep beep beep beep beep. And then, like, my number was gone. And I like... hnnng? They devoured my number. It was a really good number. And then we had to get a number in a different prefix and it wasn't as good. It's kind of a..... bummer.

1-987-LN-FEISS

One number

[Nikkos]

"(one number for life... the ultimate!)"

One number to find you.
One number for life.
One number for the world to call
And in the darkness (and light, and evening, and morning) bind you.

Nikkos

Re:Does it really matter?

[gpinzone]

Yeah, but since it's the UK, I'll bet those are really crooked teeth.

One Number For Life?

[handy_vandal]

"... (one number for life... the ultimate!)"

Not good enough. The true ultimate number would last into the afterlife. That way, we could call dead people, and not have to remember a special post-mortem phone number.

Much superior to the old postal method of contacting dead people, via the dead-letter office ....

That's easy

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not just use your SSN/SIN number? It's not like we have any privacy anyway. This would just be facing the music.

Re:Uh what about pricing?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I can call my girlfriend for 5 cents"

And I can call your girlfriend for $2.95 a minute

one number?

[DuranDuran]

> (one number for life... the ultimate!)"

But the next story on /. is about privacy - NOT having one number...