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Here's mud in your iPhone: Page 2 of 2

The public was up in arms about telephone number portability, and after much foot dragging by the telco's and an act by the FCC, we can keep our phone numbers for life. But no one seems to be upset about being locked into wireless service because that company has the phone you need--something we actually pay as high as $500 or more and is not guaranteed that to work with another service. One of the rationales for phone number portability was that it removed consumer lock-in. Number portability is a nice convenience, but as someone who buys PDA's, being locked into a wireless service because of an expensive phone is just as onerous.