iPhone Pity Party

I've owned my iBrick for 24 hours now (but I remain too cool to have stood on a line at least). However, I still haven't been able to get online. I seem to have committed the cardinal sin of moving. Somewhere buried in the number portability laws as a nuance about only being obligated to move numbers for mobiles in the same metro area. As far as I can tell, the other telco's are now remembering this portion of the law and not allowing phone transfers.

Fortunately there's a way around this, and appleinsider has taken the time to document how you can get around these problems. But that only works if your original activation attemp doesn't get stuck in limbo. Which mine has. Joy.

At least I'm not alone, there's a growing thread on gizmodo.