One Number to Rule Them All

Again I do not remember where I exactly read the article, but it was definitely on an Indonesian news website. Anyway, the article talked about one cellphone number that is accepted for all cellular telecommunication operator companies. Here in Indonesia lately there has been a "tariff war" among the telecom companies. Whenever a telecom company offers cheaper tariff or gives more bonuses, it usually attracts a lot of people to switch their cellular services. The problem is that they will have to use a new cellphone number and cannot use their old one. Other people are reluctant to do so because of this reason, hence they often decide not to switch despite better offers out there or despite bad service they currently have. Well, the article talked about the concept of maintaining one cellphone number that does not dependent on which telecom company is providing the service. I think if this concept is accepted, it will be very nice. People will then have not to worry about informing their colleagues and families whenever they switch their cellular services because they will still use their current cellphone numbers. A good concept. I hope it will be a reality in the future.