| The technology exists The Air transport industry has e-tickets. The basic concept is you buy a ticket online on American Airlines and you can go check in for a British Airways flight at the kiosk in Heathrow with no paper ticker, just your passport.
Wallmart suppliers must be able to receive electonic orders or they are cut out from doing business with the giant.
The technology and standards had been around for years that enable companies to exchange sophisticated and complicated e-commerce data about customers and goods.
If the telcos are at all serious they would come together and implement these same ideas for number portibality. But they won’t, unless forced, and that’s not going to happen with the Bush administration. |
