Comments on: Mobile Number Portability

By: MichaeL

MichaeL — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:57:23 +0000

WoW ! way-out !

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:01:57 +0000

Taiwan: YES

But it will cost you about 7000 yen(NT$2000) to change the carrier. At first, everyone expected there will be a large number of carrier switchs. However, only less than 1% of total users really switched due to the high cost and the little saving of different phone rates. I think Japan will have that kind of thing, too.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:20:02 +0000

In Singapore, the attempt to retain mobile phone number while switching carrier is a half-hearted one. It was carried out 2-3 years ago. people who had their number retained will also issued with a new one from their new carrier. As such, your friend can reach you via your old number, they will fail to recognise your new number when you call them. the new number, instead of the old one, is transmitted.

wonder is this similar in your case?

By: abraxis

abraxis — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:02:52 +0000

We got that in the US 2 years ago. It would have been sooner, but the cell phone companies sued and delayed, saying that it would be too expensive for them and there’s already competition in the marketplace and there was no demand for it (from their board members).

We’ve had it for a few years, and guess what? Cell rates haven’t gone down that much, but more features such as free mobile to mobile minutes and rollover exist now that probably would never have if competition wasn’t there.

I’ve tried figuring out the various keitai service plans and my head nearly imploded…

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 May 2006 05:40:30 +0000

“Although you can do that in almost any country…”

Not in Canada, you can’t… The latest rumblings from the CRTC are for September, 2007 :-(

By: eddie

eddie — Thu, 18 May 2006 05:38:18 +0000

Yes, finally! During my time in Japan, I switched to nearly every network provider: 1st yr was with H, 2nd yr with DoCoMo, 3rd yr with J-Phone/Vodafone, and now AU. Needless to say, my friends were pissed in needing to update my info on their keitai annually. And to be honest, I’m gonna stick with AU from now therefore this number keeping thing came a bit too late.