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What Has Number Portability Done For You?

Posted by timothy on from the absolutely-nothing-huh dept.

Coldeagle writes "Number portability has been around for a few days now, I was wondering; have any of you fellow Slashdot readers switched carriers? How was your experience, and have you seen any price warring since it went into place?" Or is number portability so far more hype than happenin'?

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  1. Obnoxious feature? by Smallpond · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They used to publish these big books that had people's name and address right there for anyone to see. What an invasion of privacy!! I think they were called phone books, but someone must have made them stop doing that as you never see them anymore.

    Actually, the whole idea of number portability is stupid. Are we asking for IP portability from our ISP? No. DNS allows seamless changes (if your ISP tech support is on the ball).

    We should have the same thing for telephones, dial by name + identifying hierarchical description. Like:

    Joe Doe -> gives local list of Joe Does to select from
    Joe Doe @ NY, NY -> gives list from Manhattan + them other boroughs

    etc.
    Why am I expected to treasure some freaking 10-digit number?