With 3 simultaneous sessions, I obviously couldn’t be everywhere at the same time on Monday. A guest post from a colleague who was at the Wireless Number Portability (WNP) session:
Some interesting data from this year’s WNP Panel.
Canada lags each major country in the penetration of wireless services, yet leads the world in the number of customers who have signed up for 3-year contracts. Virgin Mobile Canada (VMC) reported that 41% of Canadians are on 3-year contracts.
This will diminish the impact that WNP will have on the Canadian marketplace once WNP is launched on March 14, 2007 – IF the industry stays on track.
VMC feels that because the industry has less incentive to launch WNP, there needs to be stiff penalties for those carriers who don’t launch ontime.
There are exactly nine months between now and March 14, 2007 – let’s see if this baby will come out on time.