Number Portability problems

Several blogs have picked up on Tom Keating's detailed post about hisnumber portability problems. I had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago when I tried to port a mobile phone number from Cingular to Sprint-Nextel only to find out that Sprint-Nextel couldn't support the old number.

I think we all long for the day when phone numbers are obsolete, and we are reached via our SIP URI or some other identifier that WE own, not the service provider. We can already do this for our web sites, why not our phones?

Comments

[Michael Napolitano]

Was your porting issue also related to Tom's comment of being outside his standard calling area? Curious why this could not be accomplished.