Does anyone in Canada know?

Question

If legislation has passed yet to be able to keep your existing cell phone number while ending your contract with your provider?

Answer 1

Canada will get Mobile Number Portability in March 2007 - Too little too late from the CRTC
Submitted by Roland on Wed, 2005-12-21 14:19.
The oligopoly and the CRTC compromise on a deadline that's too little too late. It shouldn't take 18 months! How about July 2006 for Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa and March 2007 for the rest of the country? That would be something that would almost be acceptable. Corporations always talk about the need for world class infrastructure and taxes; how about putting their money where their mouth is and implementing world class mobile number portability sooner rather than later?

From CRTC Shortens Wait Time for Number Portability - Michael Geist.:

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The CRTC yesterday issued its much-anticipated decision involving the implementation of wireless number portability. The Commission mandated number portability by March 14, 2007, about six months faster than the industry proposed, though not exactly the "expeditious" implementation that the government called for last February.

CRTC extends benefits of number portability to wireless
consumers on a timely basis
Canadian consumers to keep telephone numbers when
changing wireless service providers
OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today issued a decision requiring all Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in most of Canada. Today's decision follows a public notice issued on September 16, 2005, in which the Commission invited comments on several issues related to the implementation of WNP.

“This decision establishes the earliest feasible date for wireless number portability consistent with a smooth and reliable transition for wireless customers,” says Charles Dalfen, Chairman of the CRTC. “Consumers should be given the widest possible choice of service providers and should be able to switch telephone companies without unwarranted cost or inconvenience.”

By March 14, 2007 Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and the mobility division of TELUS Communications Inc. will be required to provide WNP to their customers in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Québec. This means that customers in any of these provinces will be able to switch to any service provider in that province (wireline or wireless) and keep their phone number.

Throughout Canada, all wireless carriers will, by the same date, be required to release a phone number to another carrier (port-out customers) and by no later than September 12, 2007, to accept a phone number from another carrier (port-in customers).

While WNP will remove a significant barrier to changing wireless service providers, consumers should bear in mind that handsets may not function on different wireless carriers networks due to different network technologies; customers may have binding long term service contracts with early termination fees; long distance services may not be transferable from one carrier to another; and not all the services that a customer has with one service provider will be supported or provided by another service provider.

In the February budget of 2005, the Government of Canada requested the Commission move expeditiously to implement WNP. In a 2005 Decima survey conducted for the CRTC 70% of wireless consumers surveyed indicated that keeping their telephone number when changing wireless service providers was important. Comments from individuals during the Commission's proceeding were unanimously in favour of WNP and asked that it be implemented as soon as possible.

The CRTC

The CRTC is an independent, public authority which was established to sustain and promote Canadian culture and achieve key social and economic objectives by regulating and supervising Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest. As an expert tribunal it takes into account the wants and needs of Canadian citizens, industries and various interest groups. The CRTC is governed by the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act and reports to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage.

Reference Document: Telecom Decision CRTC 2005-72 [.htm] [.pdf]

Answer 2

how are you able to need a place which you have under no circumstances been to yet? this is like seeing previews of a action picture and you get so excited and prefer it, then you definately get there and this is a important unhappiness simply by fact it replaced into not as super as you predicted it to be. i'm not asserting Canada is a foul place. in fact, I stay her and that i admire the organic elegance, the friendly human beings, and our subculture has this manner of super experience of humour ordinarily. yet i think of that somebody would desire to bypass to factors of Canada first and notice what factors they like. huge distinction once you stay in Vancouver vs. Winnipeg, exceedingly while January rolls around! Likewise, huge cultural variations residing in Calgary vs Montreal. this is like putting somebody from ny city into the middle of friendly Prairie, Wisconsin...there will be a tender subculture ask your self.

Answer 3

It may be policy and not legislation. You'll find the answer off of this site: