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 ...

Come late October, Celluphone Inc. usually braces for the busy but profitable holiday shopping season. Not this year. Commerce-based Celluphone sells Verizon Wireless and AT & T; Wireless Services Inc ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like millions of other wireless customers, Mark Graves is ready to dump his service provider this month when people will be allowed to keep their old cell phone numbers when switching carriers. Graves ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE - Eight independent telephone companies have agreed to a schedule by which they will comply with federal local number portability rules or explain why they can't. On Tuesday, the Wyoming ...

How close are Kenya’s mobile phone users to enjoying the benefits of number portability? Not very close, it seems. Number portability refers to the ability of subscribers to retain their fixed or ...