Number Portability

Yes, go ahead, ask me what makes me believe that. Thousands of us are disgruntled with the services offered by our cellular service providers.
Some service providers have major network problems, while some burn a hole in our pockets with the 5 page bill at the end of the month.
But now, one can switch services for the same cellular number! I'm glad this concept has been introduced in India and that will be applicable soon (Latter half of 2008).

The project will be active in 4 metros in 2008, while the rest of the cities will have to wait for more updates. This is big news, as India is now one of the fastest growing markets in this sector.

With this change, service providers will always be under pressure to retain their customers.
Calls charges are likely to reduce and quality of services offered would improve substantially.

Subscribers were hesitant till now to change their service providers because of the inconvenience of changing their number and the hassle of forwarding it to everyone in their phone book. Also, these people whom you send your new number to, would crib saying "Damn, how often do you change your number? I'll have to update my phone book again".

Kudos to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) and let the fittest ones survive.