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Number portability could provide new options to phone users.
Byline: Jeff Gelles
What would it take for you to "cut the cord" _ to give up your tried-and-true home phone and rely completely on wireless service?
Four million people have already done so, but they tend to be younger, cutting-edge types who came of age with wireless and never had a home phone to call their own.
I'm not in that category, so it's a much scarier step. For me, it'd take three things:
One is a reliable wireless connection _ tough in my hilly, wooded neighborhood, but more conceivable as wireless networks improve.
The second is a way to make my cell phone usable on all my household extensions. That's possible, too, it turns out. So-called docking stations are already on the market.
The third ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Number portability could provide new options to phone users.