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Yet More on Cellular Number Portability

Posted by michael on from the churn dept.

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!)"

7 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. well, to each their own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    one number for life... the ultimate!

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

  2. The Ultimate? by slagdogg · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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    (Score:-1, Wrong)
    1. Re:The Ultimate? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

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      Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
    2. Re:The Ultimate? by SeanAhern · · Score: 3, Funny

      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

  3. One number by Nikkos · · Score: 5, Funny

    "(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

  4. Re:Does it really matter? by gpinzone · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  5. One Number For Life? by handy_vandal · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... (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 ....

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    -kgj