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DVD-RAM - Issue #66November 20, 2003by Adam ThiererOn Monday, November 24, Americans will gain a de facto property rightin their telephone numbers. Thanks to new Federal CommunicationsCommission (FCC) rules that go into effect that day, wireless andwireline carriers will be forced to let customers in majormetropolitan areas take their phone numbers with them when theydecide to switch providers. All Americans will gain this right bynext May.Hailed as a pro-competitive move in most circles, the FCC adoptedthis 'number portability' measure under the assumption that it wouldgenerate more customer churn by allowing consumers to take theirphone numbers with them when they want to shop around for betterdeals. Of course, if anyone had property rights in phone numbers itwas probably the carriers that originally assigned them to us, butthe FCC ignored that and re-assigned the rights to end users so theycan more easily jump from one provider to another. And jump ship theywill, in very large numbers in all likelihood, especially from thewireline side of the business to wireless. In fact, telecom industrypundits are increasingly talking about the 'perfect storm' that nowlooms for the wireline telecom sector in the wake of the followingdevelopments:http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/031120-tk.html
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