http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Canada on verge of number portability http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Oct 27th 2006 10:43PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/I've been waiting for this for ages!!!!!
Glad to hear its coming finaly.
Seriously, we're SO behind the times here.
Frank]]>Oct 27th 2006 4:48PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Oct 27th 2006 5:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/
Hope this opens up more competition in cellular rates and hopefully the prices drop a little (especially for Data plans)]]>Oct 27th 2006 8:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Oct 28th 2006 9:55AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/
In the WEST, large companies have typically gone with Telus since Cantel had such a bad name back in the day.]]>Oct 28th 2006 3:23PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Oct 28th 2006 3:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Oct 30th 2006 5:03PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/I have been a customer of Bell Mobility for over 20 years and will take my phone and my employees and move to Rogers or Telus right away.

I have contacts in the industry and am told Bell will do a MAJOR ad campaign over the holidays to sign people up on 3 year terms ( existing and new customers). Most people dont know about NUMBER PORTABILITY and may fall into the Bell trap of signing up.

CAUTION to them.

Who will win? Rogers for wireless as they have the best network.
Telus I think will gain the most % increase and have the most to win in the long run if they improve their packages and retail operations which are very poor.

I am itching to upgrade but holding off till March.

I bet all carriers will offer great deals to switch over.

I hope SOMEONE will offer a data package like Sprint US offering $49 UNLIMITED DATA.

Also note, someone ( not sure but I guess Google or Vonage ) will be offering WIFI phones and networks in 2009 timframe so carriers will be hit with double wammy. Bell again will be the big loser.

My recommendation is switch in 2007 on a 2 or 3 year and then switch to WIFI phone in 2009/2010.

HAve a great day all!!!!! ]]>Nov 16th 2006 9:53AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/Nov 18th 2006 4:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/27/canada-on-verge-of-number-portability/
today i emailed inphonex customer svc and they told me they will start to port numbers in within a week or two.

Has anyone else heard this? If this is true i will no longer be using them as my backup, they will be my main provider. This will also help me with all the Vonage people that ask where they should move to.]]>Apr 13th 2007 2:23PM