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Cell phones: new rules, new choices.
The big news in cell phones isn't the handsets, even though they're more elaborate than ever. It isn't the calling plans, even though they're more generous with the allotment of minutes. The biggest news centers around the 10-digits hone number itself.
On Nov. 24, after years of delay, the Federal Communications Commission gave cell-phone customers unprecedented power with number portability, allowing them to take their phone number along when they change carriers. The FCC action affects the entire phone industry, not just the cell-phone companies, because the government also allows consumers to move a wired-phone number to a cell phone.
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...vice president of the Yankee Group, illustrated how mobile...growing. Results from the Yankee Group's latest North American...transmitted to consumers' cell phones, car phones, PDAs...Internet business. The Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup...