Two year wait for number portability "a disgrace" says Branson

TORONTO – Sir Richard Branson today released an open letter to Canadians calling on them to exert whatever pressure they can to get wireless phone number portability to happen in Canada in 2006, not 2007, as the three largest wireless providers have decided (as reported this week by www.cartt.ca. His release reads: Virgin Mobile Canada launched on March 1st, 2005 with a promise to shake up the mobile market and offer customers a simpler, better deal. One of the first issues that we identified in the mobile industry and that I spoke out publicly about was the fact that Canadians do...