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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* FCC ruling brings VoIP service providers one step closer to becoming full-fledged phone companies Last week, the FCC issued a ruling that takes VoIP service providers one step closer to becoming ...

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 ...

RCR Wireless News – On November 24, new regulations go into effect that require wireless phone carriers to help customers keep the same number if they switch service providers. FCC Chairman Michael ...

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 ...