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Hong Kong's Lessons on Number Portability

Dr.Hair writes "Dan Gillmor once again hits the nail on the head with his comparison of Hong Kong's competitive mobile phone market to the United States. Experiences of incumbent carriers trying to thwart competition and stifle the free market in Hong Kong should be remembered as the FCC nudges US carriers to carry out number portability. In the end competition should provide better customer service, better coverage, and better pricing in the US, all of which will eat in to carrier profits. But it also might bring the US out of the tech backwaters, where customer lock-in is the marketing strategy and "innovation" is the spin of the day."

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  1. GNAA's Lesson in Anus Portability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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    1. Re:GNAA's Lesson in Anus Portability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE [imdb.com] and watch it. (click here to download the 280MB MPEG from BitTorrent [idge.net])

      The tracker seems to be down.

  2. linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    linux rules, microsoft sucks bla bla

    I am a hacker, look I smell and read slashfag.org every day!

  3. THANK YOU, I LOVED THIS STORY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what a poignant tale of CmdrTaco getting raped by the GNAA. Please, more stories like this need to be posted on Slashdot. This site would attract an entirely new demographic.

  4. Backwater? by AntiBasic · · Score: -1, Troll

    Another excellent piece of objective journalism by /. "Hey penguinistas, the most powerful nation in the world's existance is backwater!" Only an idiot would believe that. Its time /. is held accountable for its unethical reporting. Issuing retractions when they jump the gun or are flatout wrong (as /. often is) and a halt to infantile name-calling on the front page maybe?

    Just a bunch of overpriviliged white college students with a guilty conscience who know jack shit about the world outside of uppity cafes.

  5. Something's wrong here... by Guppy06 · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a post by Taco and I don't remember seeing it before... Is it possible this is Taco's first non-dupe?