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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."

5 of 358 comments (clear)

  1. who wears short shorts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you wear short shorts?

  2. Re:I have DSL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so? you are paying her and you don't have to marry her. what's the problem? just use a condom.

  3. Hooray! by JohnTheFisherman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As if enough o*--- riends are get*==shh* rid of lan*==-- lines and going j***st with ce*==== ones.

    So many people say that no other product would survive if it worked like some OSes did, crashing all the time. Cell phones are 10x worse, and they're EVERYWHERE.

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    +5:offtopic,but anti-American
  4. don't spam me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. planet/population rescue just got easier? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't bet yOUR .asp on that won.

    it's not all toil & trouble though. you can start enjoying the rewards of membership immediately, by ditching your associations with unprecedented evile (stop giving them more&more monIE, for example).

    it may be difficult for some to see the connection between yOUR felonious eyecons, & the rising # of dead/damaged babies around the planet.

    all the more reason to investigate the pateNTdead eyecon0meter kode/begin to see the light.