{"id":5596,"date":"2004-02-13T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/13\/portability.html"},"modified":"2004-02-13T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:18:10","slug":"portability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/13\/portability.html","title":{"rendered":"Portability"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great thing about a free market system is that folks will come up with all sorts of ingenious market twists to things that were never considered originally.<\/p>\n

Who, for example, thought that phone number portability would lead to folks selling cool phone numbers on eBay<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Remember the Tommy TuTone Mega Hit, “Jenny\/867-5309”? YOU CAN HAVE 212-867-5309 AS YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER. GET THE GREATEST NUMBER IN THE GREATEST CITY. For business or personal use— have a truly distinctive phone number. I currently am the owner of 212-867-5309. I will transfer the number to the highest bidder. Number portability has allowed me to put this up for sale. Now you can transfer this phone number to any cellphone in the US or with telephone over the internet (like Vonage — see www.vonage.com), you can be anywhere in the world and actually have Jenny’s number.<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The great thing about a free market system is that folks will come up with all sorts of ingenious market twists to things that were never considered originally. 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