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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!)"

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  1. Why is LNP such a big deal for cellular? by ckuhtz · · Score: 5, Informative
    LNP resistance in the U.S. is marketing FUD.

    Other countries are already doing this for a year or two now. Take Germany. The carrier is allowed to charge you a fee (something like 25-50 euros), which often gets comp'ed by the new carrier.

    This has nothing to do with technology. It's solved. It's carriers trying to keep customers hostage. Nothing more.

    --

    Poof.
  2. Re:perhaps a good idea by laymil · · Score: 4, Informative

    you're a very confused person when it comes to wireless tech.

    of the list of wireless standars you list, at least 3 of them are made up, or bastardizations of ones already on the list.

    Why do you think providers love the heavily fragment market of CDMA, TDMA, CDMA PCS, TDMA PCS, Sprint PCS, iDEN & GSM in the U.S.? Switching is hell.

    Lets see. PCS stands for Personal Communications Services. CDMA PCS==CDMA TDMA PCS==TDMA Sprint PCS==CDMA. iDEN works over TDMA. So, you list 7 different cellular network types. I'm telling you there are really only 3 in the US. Unless you want to count plain old analog cellular.

    Thanks for playing.