Number Portability May Connect With Users

Re: “Cell Users May Keep Numbers, Court Says,” June 7:

The most important impact of cell phone number portability may be on land-line phone companies. Portability not only allows a cell phone customer to change carriers, it also allows a land-line customer to change to a cell phone as a replacement while keeping the same number.

The churn between cell phone customers may be nothing compared with the migration of current land-line customers to cell phones exclusively.

For this reason, some cell companies have abandoned their resistance to portability.

The potential also may be one reason some land-line companies have recently started offering unlimited flat-rate service plans. Cell phones have the potential to be the true competition that those reselling land lines have never become.

Dave Close

Costa Mesa