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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate for Local Number Portability went into effect nationwide three years ago, millions of consumers ...

Last week, the FCC issued a ruling that takes VoIP service providers one step closer to becoming (dare we say) full-fledged phone companies by requiring that the VoIP providers offer local number ...

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 ...

Co announces that with the latest release of its IP Multimedia Subsystem I.M.S-ready core infrastructure solutions, the Sonus platform now supports the newly standardized method to provide both Local ...