Changing cell phone carriers is a lot easier than it used to be. On Nov. 24, cell phone portability went into effect. As part of cell phone portability, wireless or wireline phone numbers can be moved ...

Customers of wireless telephone services, and some landline services, in major U.S. metropolitan areas will be able to take their telephone numbers with them when they switch vendors when new Wireless ...

One of the many factors that regulators have introduced to increase competition in voice telephony is the concept of number portability. Because many customers are reluctant to change phone numbers in ...

CHEYENNE - Touted as a great boon to consumers, wireless local number portability for rural telephone markets starts today. The Federal Communications Commission decreed that customers should be ...

Verizon Wireless in Bedminster says it is preparing procedures to let customers keep their phone numbers when switching wireless providers. The Federal Communications Commission ordered all wireless ...

WASHINGTON -- Verizon Wireless Inc. has given up its fight against pending federal rules that would make it easier for mobile-phone customers to keep their old phone numbers after switching carriers. ...

There’s been a huge amount of press lately on the subject of local number portability, or LNP, which goes into effect on November 24, 2003. In a nutshell, LNP is an FCC-mandated policy that allows ...