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Wireless firms 'waiting to flip the switch'

CATHERINE MCLEAN

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A week before cellphone numbers become transferable, Virgin Mobile Canada briefed some new customer service employees on the change. In a small room in the wireless carrier's downtown Toronto office, nine fresh-faced trainees in jeans listened attentively as their trainer told them numbers will be moved between both wireless and land line telephones.

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