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Hm. Interesting.

If you want to buy a new phone and keep your number.... what do you do?

Well I guess you can just ask in the store to move it to the new one, that's true. It's just... strange.



You don't ask, they hand you a phone and it just works.


Unless you want to buy an unlocked phone, etc. etc.


Why would you want to do that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World


Give the provider the phone's public key fingerprint.

You're letting yourself be constrained by the very brokenness people are saying should be fixed.


Well in that case you have to have it tied with your name, so it will only work for contracts; and only about half of the people here are on contracts.


Works for pay as you go as well




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