Wireless LNP is a wireless consumer's ability to change service providers within the same local area and still keep the same phone number. Wireless LNP will allow consumers to switch from one wireless ...

At the first chance to switch cellular providers without changing their phone numbers, Seattle residents Sean Frego and Junko Yamamoto were at the ready yesterday, standing outside the Cingular store ...

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 ...

There are nervous wireless executives walking through the halls of the nation's cellphone providers this week. The muted conversations and worried frowns are thanks to what could amount to a sizeable ...

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 ...

STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Neustar, Inc. (NYS: NSR) submitted its proposal in response to the North American Portability Management LLC's Request for Proposal (RFP) for local number ...

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 ...

Commentary: After years of delay, the FCC seems poised to switch vendors for the local telephone number portability database. That could be a big mistake. Building high-volume, complex information ...

As local number portability was launched yesterday, CellOne sweetened the deal with a ‘$200 off’ promotion on some postpaid phone services. Rival Digicel is promising mobile users “a smooth experience ...

No matter how much they merge with each other and how big they get, one thing about companies in the telephone business seems constant: They never tire of bickering with one another. Last fall, MCI ...