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The Toronto Star carried an article yesterday addressing the number portability issue (or absence thereof) here in Canada. Article here: Message to telco watchdogs: Bite. The gist of the article is: Hey! Why not?
The point is that in the year since portability was introduced in the US, the world has not shuddered to an end. The industry was not upended and consumers didn't cause companies in the industry to fall apart. Ultimately it seems to have been a good thing. Here's a snip:
According to an FCC report on the first anniversary of wireless local number portability, or wireless LNP, more than 8.5 million U.S. customers ported their existing number to a wireless carrier. Of those, about 10 per cent kept their number when moving from a wireline to wireless service.Posted by Grayson at January 11, 2005 07:44 AM