Switching Mobile Phone Providers Makes You A Credit Risk?
How long until the mobile phone carriers, fighting against number portability, use the following argument to keep you from switching: it turns out that regularly switching mobile phone providers makes you look like a credit risk. I think that's actually a bit exaggerated, but the article claims that each time you sign up for a mobile phone account you're basically taking out a credit agreement. If you're constantly switching, that can set off alarms. They also say if you buy mobile phones for your family it can set off credit warnings, because they wonder why you're suddenly signing up for a bunch of credit agreements.
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