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Telephone number portability (finally)

Canada finally joins the ranks of Western Civilization with the advent of being able to retain and switch your telephone number to another service provider.

A little note from Anita that I received last week (March 14th, 2007):

Starting today, if you live in a Canadian Metropolitan area, you can finally switch cellular providers and keep your current number!  This isn’t something that the cell phone companies are going to announce because it’s kind of their worst nightmare.  The bad news is that there are still only three carriers in Canada so competition is less than fierce.  At least we now have the freedom to switch to the carrier that we hate the least and still keep the same number.

More details at Wireless Week and on the CRTC website. It’s about time and I can hear the mobile companies scrambling with people moving their forwarded mobile phone numbers to VOIP providers and other mobile providers.

Any experiences out there, yet?

This item was re-published with permission from raj.jp.