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 ...

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 ...

As wireless-to-wireless local number portability (LNP) soon becomes a reality, wireline-to-wireless LNP remains the last portability barrier for wireless carriers to overcome, according to Gartner Inc ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Marketwatch) -- NeuStar Inc. NSR, after Friday's clsoing bell said that the Canadian LNP Consortium Inc. has agreed to extend NeuStar's contract to provide number portability services ...

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 ...

The portability law, which lets customers keep their phone numbers when switching service, will likely boost carriers' expenses and limit revenue growth for years to come, analysts say. Wireless ...

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 ...

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 ...