The telcos and cellular carriers are going to court in a last-ditch effort to fight the November 24th deadline for number-portability. If they lose, we'll be able to take our phone numbers (even land-line numbers!) with us when we change carriers. Let's pray that they lose: the only reason the telcos get away with acting as shitty as they do is that losing your number when you change providers is such a hardship, so you stick around in these abusive relationships.
The telcos, of course, say that their business is already suffering so much that they couldn't survive if their customers could switch carriers when the telcos act so badly. Somehow, I can't work up a lot of sympathy for that position.
(via Gizmodo)
