What’s the News: iconectiv has been providing mobile number portability service in Argentina since March 2012. Under a contract extension, iconectiv is also providing fixed number portability service, ...

A big discussion in the wireless industry right now revolves around the concept of number portability. Put simply, with number portability you can switch providers and still keep your phone number.

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 ...

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 ...

update Singapore officially introduces mobile number portability (MNP) today, allowing mobile phone subscribers to retain their numbers when they switch carriers. A spokesperson from the country's ICT ...

There are nervous wireless executives walking through the halls of the nation's cellphone providers this week. The muted conversations and worried frowns are thanks to what could amount to a sizeable ...

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 ...

In the telecom world, number portability has long been a reality. You can switch mobile providers without losing your phone number — a change that radically transformed the industry. It made switching ...

One of the woefully underreported benefits to the FCC’s decision to force the cellphone companies to let customers take their number with them when the switch carriers is that phone number portability ...