Here's to actually seeing this enforced by the FCC!

Quite frequently losing carriers double (or more) the current '4 day' rule with very little _real_ repercussions. Part of the current 'problem' is that most of the common land-line porting practices involve the cooperative resources of numerous loosely related parties; many of which are still doing things in antiquated fashion (pencil and paper, manual data entry, etc).

Moving land-line porting practices and regulations to more closely resemble their cellular children will be great for VoIP in general, as it will significantly reduce the hassle that is transferring a phone number!