In my city, Winnipeg, Manitoba, there are now three wireless providers. MTS, the local telco, Roger’s/AT&T, and Telus, from Alberta. I like my Telus number, which is fairly memorable and personalized after all. This story tells that in the US wireless providers will have to allow their networks to support Wireless Local Number Portability, which means that your wireless, and even land line numbers can be moved to a new wireless provider, which means that you can switch providers without losing your number that you have given out to everyone. I seriously think that this should be available for the internet, though I guess for $9 USD plus an email service, this is available.