# "New Miracles of the Telephone Age"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-miracles-of-the-telephone-age/566277>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 3, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-miracles-of-the-telephone-age/566277 "2011-01-03T22:46:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-miracles-of-the-telephone-age/566277/21 "2011-01-05T14:13:01Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> A portable telephone number for life is an idea that has happened yet but it is a pretty good idea. The technology exists to make that happen now but nobody has done it as far as I know. It wouldn’t be super-hard to implement because it would be basically like call forwarding to any device you buy in the future and could be updated with new devices. I predict we will see something like that eventually.
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> Forget you ever heard that. Meet me on the worldwide list of billionaires 10 years from now.

It has happened… sorta. For the last ten or so years, LNP (Local Number Portability) has been expanded to include Cell Phones. My personal number has followed me from Raleigh to Atlanta and, finally, to Charlotte. If I really wanted to mess with people, I could get it ported to a land line.

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