Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier 358
QuePasaCalabaza writes "The FCC has approved a bill 5-0 that allows consumers to take their land line phone numbers and carry them over to thier wireless phones. USA Today has one of the first scoops on this ruling. The official news release [Word|PDF] is there."
one number to rule them all... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No land line is great (Score:4, Funny)
Tank, I need an exit! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:or until (Score:3, Funny)
Paranoia:
1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
- paranoiac
I'd hardly call keeping a cell phone as a land-line backup irrational and/or excessive (you DO back up your data, don't you? Have any of your machines on UPSs?)... but as an old military buddy of mine aptly put it:
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out there."
Brotherly love (Score:5, Funny)
If I lived in Philly, I wouldn't feel safe without a howitzer, an M-60, and booby-trapped windows. I'd wear kevlar to bed. I'd crouch-roll on the way to the bathroom.
But yeah, keeping a land-line is a good start.
Re:Number portability is powered by Verisign (Score:1, Funny)