STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Neustar, Inc. (NYS: NSR) submitted its proposal in response to the North American Portability Management LLC's Request for Proposal (RFP) for local number ...

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 ...

No matter how much they merge with each other and how big they get, one thing about companies in the telephone business seems constant: They never tire of bickering with one another. Last fall, MCI ...

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 ...

Millions of fed-up cell phone users think about dumping their carriers every year but then abandon the thought--largely because switching carriers also means changing their mobile phone numbers. It’s ...

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 ...

Commentary: After years of delay, the FCC seems poised to switch vendors for the local telephone number portability database. That could be a big mistake. Building high-volume, complex information ...

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 ...

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 ...

New federal rules take effect today that allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers if they switch wireless phone providers or to switch their existing land-line home phone numbers to wireless ...

At the first chance to switch cellular providers without changing their phone numbers, Seattle residents Sean Frego and Junko Yamamoto were at the ready yesterday, standing outside the Cingular store ...