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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Ted Stevens Wants To Switch Between Phones "As I Ride My Motorcycle"

Everybody's favorite techno-babble spouter, Sen. Ted "a series of tubes" Stevens, confounded just about everyone at the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability.

Stevens: "Let me be just the Devil's Advocate here. Could I just decide I want to keep my wireline and I want to add wireless to it? Can I have two providers on the same number?"
Awkward pause: "Um, I don't think that technology exists right now."
Stevens: "If I had an IP phone, by definition, I'd have to leave the wire... wireline phone to use it?"
Answer: "I think that is the case with the technology today."
Stevens: "Is it coming? Why shouldn't I be able to say, just by a little switch on my phone at home that's wired, I'm going off on the wireless now, I want to use this as I ride my motorcycle."

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