Cell Phone Number Portability Ruling

Ken@WearableTech writes "Checking the Court's Opinion site every day has paid off. Verizon's action on the FCC's number portability ruling was dismissed by the D.C. Court of Appeals. The court found that Verizon had waited far too long to bring the challenge and it also sided with the FCC's interpretation of the Law rather than Verizon. Barring any other action we may see number portability this year. Unfortunately, Verizon is already lobbying to have the law changed. But it was also nice to see Cingular was on the FCC's side of the case."

Comments

Yeah, huh.

[jspoon]

"Checking the Court's Opinion site every day has paid off."

Thank god you checked it every day, otherwise this would never have happened.

Re:Yeah, huh.

[Imperator]

Just think how much more democracy we'd have if he had used a Perl script to check lots of sites and see whether they'd changed.

SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, now I can keep getting the same spam calls forever, even when I change companies.

You wanna know what really happened?

[bigmase521]

I put in a call to James Earl Jones. His personal assistant forwarded the message and he took time out of his busy break-dancing schedule to call me back.

James (in signature voice): What's up bud?

Me: Big Jimbo, you know this mess w/ Verizon trying to stop Cell Number portability? Is there anything ya can do about that?

James: oh ho ho ho, Let me see what I can do my friend.

Me: Well since we're on the subject, see what you can do about that "can you hear me now?" dude will ya?

James: I'm only one man guy. One very famous, very well-respected, Toni Award-winning man *pauses* On second thought, let me see what I can do about that guy too, I just saw him on a commercial for the 132nd time today. I'll get back to ya.

One down, one to go! Jimbo's clutch :)

Re:US Europe

[thedbp]

An American response ... although I bear no real sentimental attatchment to my country of origin, I still feel the need to retort to your indignation:

1. We call them cell phones, yes. That is because our contracts put us into a state not unlike that of a turkish prison, with our phones being our "cell." Therefore, "Cell Phones".

2. We pay for incoming calls because it is worth it to make it appear as if people want to talk to us. Remember, this is America, where status is much easier to buy.

3. We don't use SMS because it costs a shitload more here than it does there. No joke here, just the fucked up truth.

Once again, as an American, I would be disgusted to look at your awful semi-continent on a map, that is, if I could find it.

Re:the text

[TheRaven64]

was gonna post the text from the pdf, but it couldn't pass the junk filter. What does that tell you?

That you're a karma whore?

If your like me..

[craigtay]

You switched cell phones specifically to get a new phone number. Stupid restraining orders..