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OT... Thanks to the FCC it is now possible to jump ship from your current cell phone provider and force them to pass your phone number to your new provider.
I am opening up this discussion to see if any of you have gone thru this process to share your experiences.
I just saw on slashdot that there is currently an auction for 867-5309 on ebay that has been bid up to at least $8K.
My wife and I just did this... well, we did it over a month ago. And mine went through no sweat (like 2 days to go through and old phone remains usable until then), but hers just did finally get done right after several attempts and a lot of time spent on the phone. I think it was just a series of incompetent operators who kept doing more harm than good when they did anything. We switched from AT&T to Cingular. I recently heard that those are the two with the most customer complaints (Verizon was the best). Also we have had a few times we've gotten dead air for a few seconds and couldn't hear each other. It's probably not anything to really be concerned about unless it becomes routine.
Everybody should watch their bills for BS "number portability charges." Some carriers are tacking a couple of bucks on each bill with this description. To me, this is totally backwards - they are charging their customers who don't switch and letting the switchers go - probably to a carrier that doesn't try to charge such bogus fees.