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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* 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 ...