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Of course, this order does not require the opposite, that you can take your cellphone number and transfer it to your landline (the, perhaps valid, excuse is the expense of updating old telco tech). However, the convenience of such portability is not to be underestimated. Increasingly, customers will be abandoning landlines and using cellular as their primary voice device. This is bad news for the traditional telcos as Kevin Werbach points out (Number portability and the telco death spiral).
Of course, VoIP can be inherently portable. For example, I can take my Vonage router and connect it (via ethernet) to any broadband connection and phone calls to my assigned number are routed there.
The recording industry thinks that new technology threatens their existence ... the telcos are dead men walking.
Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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