Posted on 02/25/2005 8:29:15 PM PST by kerrywearsbotox
CHICAGO -- Tired of the terrible customer service at your wireless carrier, but concerned if you switch everyone who knows your mobile number will be unable to reach you? Not to worry. Mobile phone numbers are now portable -- meaning you can take them with you from one carrier to another, as if they were personal property.
The rule allowing consumers to do this was authorized by the Federal Communications Commission just over a year ago, though experts told UPI's Wireless World that customers largely are just beginning to learn of it.
"In general, things are going pretty well," said Doug Brueckner, senior vice president of wireless at Convergys, a developer of wireless billing software in Cincinnati. "There have been a number of people taking advantage of it -- a pretty substantial number. What is driving it is that consumers want to have a choice." By Gene Koprowski
Actually, the idea of people who know my number being unable to reach me is a not unattractive notion.
I'm tired of paying taxes to support the Mexican-American war(true tax, and everyone in the US pays it), and other assorted taxes on my land lines. The problem is that I've had the same numbers for 20 years, and don't want to change. Can I switch those numbers over a mobile phone?
If you have Verizon for landline phone service, yes - they're the only ones I'm aware of that will convert your landline number to a wireless one. Otherwise, you're outta luck.
No, what really concerns me is that all 5 of the cellphone providers I have had have sucked equally, when push came to shove.
This definitely ain't the America I grew up in, and I do not believe business can prosper when customer abuse is pandemic. I think if people don't relearn the Golden Rule, and employ it, the economy will shrivel. And I for one don't want to see that happen.
Yep. But you'll the taxes on the cells are probably as bad as on a landline.
A $30.00 monthly rate on your cell phone could end up being $35.00 to $40.00 after taxes, depending on where you live.
I was just thinking about the tax we all pay to support the Mexican-AMerican War...........we really need to start using it don't we?
This week I moved my mobile number to a new service. It took about ten minutes and couldn't possibly have been easier. I paid the penalty for cancelling the old service early, but it was worth every penny.
Venizon: "Can you deer meat now?"
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections Published: January 28, 2005
"An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year."
Haven't we paid for that war already?
A better question is what the heck did America get from it?
You're right, it's the Spanish-American War, not the Mexican-American. My mistake.
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