Today: One year of number portability

Nov 24 2004 - 12:00 AM ET | Number portability

Today marks one year since local number portability was enabled for the top 100 markets in the United States. According to the FCC, over 8 million people have changed carriers but kept their numbers in that time.

Also according to the FCC, about 750,000 people have changed a landline number to a mobile phone.

To read more on local number portability, browse through the MobileTracker LNP news archive.