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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AT&T Wireless will tell federal regulators Wednesday that it's solved some software problems that kept former subscribers waiting weeks to get an old telephone number transferred to their new ...

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’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 ...

A few companies such as Verizon are prepared to accept a tradeoff. While the company is the nation's largest local phone provider, Verizon last June became the first industry giant to break ranks and ...

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 ...