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Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the taking-it-with-you dept.

QuePasaCalabaza writes "The FCC has approved a bill 5-0 that allows consumers to take their land line phone numbers and carry them over to thier wireless phones. USA Today has one of the first scoops on this ruling. The official news release [Word|PDF] is there."

6 of 358 comments (clear)

  1. one number to rule them all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    and on vacation find me...

  2. Re:No land line is great by chochos · · Score: 4, Funny

    you also need a land line to get out of the Matrix, but they never explained why...

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    Go hug some trees.
  3. Tank, I need an exit! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uh, Neo, hate to say this but...

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    "I only speak the truth"
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  4. Re:or until by The+Tyro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't usually reply to ACs... but I'm slipping in my old age (from Webster's dictionary):

    Paranoia:

    1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations

    2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
    - paranoiac /-'noi-"ak, -'noi-ik/ also paranoic /-'noi(-i)k, -'nO-ik/ adjective or noun

    I'd hardly call keeping a cell phone as a land-line backup irrational and/or excessive (you DO back up your data, don't you? Have any of your machines on UPSs?)... but as an old military buddy of mine aptly put it:

    "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out there."

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    Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
  5. Brotherly love by siskbc · · Score: 4, Funny
    I live in philadelphia. I would not feel safe without a land line in the house. Two cell phones or not.

    If I lived in Philly, I wouldn't feel safe without a howitzer, an M-60, and booby-trapped windows. I'd wear kevlar to bed. I'd crouch-roll on the way to the bathroom.

    But yeah, keeping a land-line is a good start.

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    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  6. Re:Number portability is powered by Verisign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean that if I dial a wrong number in future it'll play a few advertisements and then take me straight to directory enquiries?