the telcos are holding us hostage and this is a true monopolistic attitude.. this is against the very basic rules of free trade and consumer rights and i am not surprised to know that the cell phone operators have rejected the idea of 'number portability'. i do agree that in even in a country like US, number portability has come just a few years back, but you would be interested to know, how all of it started. it started my a small PIL from one of consumer, claiming that this attitude of the phone opertaor was monopolistic and was not giving the consumer an equal chance to decide whats best for him. and that was it.. this case reached the highest order and became a law and the US regulators had to implemement it.
