Seems like the US telecom industry is ripe for some major disruption. What if a company comes in and start treating its customers right? They'll have millions eager to sign up. Or at least that's how capitalism was explained to me at highschool.
When I switched carrier I had to go to a T-mobile store to show my passport and do a debitcard transaction of 50 cents to verify that I had a working bankaccount. Seems pretty fraud proof and it took ten minutes.