Time flies, and I meant to pontificate about a number of things. Reading through the November issue of Business 2.0 and some online threads, I came across a few interesting tidbits - here it goes…

A reckoning of sorts is coming to the cell-phone business. Forget about 3G , mobile gaming , and other supposedly disruptive technologies; on Nov. 24 the industry will enter a Darwinian phase that will rationalize the crazy-quilt nature of U.S. cellular coverage and perhaps bring relief to customers fed up with dropped calls and indifferent service.

What’s the catalyst? After 13 years of legal wrangling, the FCC will require carriers to let customers keep their mobile-phone numbers even if they switch service providers. The advent of “number portability” is good news for any cell-phone user who has angrily sworn that he’d change carriers in an instant — if only that didn’t entail changing phone numbers as well. It’s less good news for wireless carriers , because it may well push several of the weaker players over the edge.