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 ...

Come late October, Celluphone Inc. usually braces for the busy but profitable holiday shopping season. Not this year. Commerce-based Celluphone sells Verizon Wireless and AT & T; Wireless Services Inc ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless yesterday announced that they will offer customers the flexibility to port their phone numbers between Verizon local and wireless services. Verizon Wireless ...

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 ...