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Wireless carriers in Canada have agreed to let consumers keep their mobile number when switching carriers. The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association said that while the agreement has been made, a start date has not been set. Number portability has been...
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...
Both Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless today announced that the two companies will lower the monthly surcharge for expenses related to local number portability. The controversial surcharges have made the two companies over $250 million this year. Verizon is cutting...
Today marks the start of nationwide wireless number portability for America. November 24, 2003 marked WNP for the top 100 US markets. If you are planning on switching your carrier, read our collection of tips or head to the PhoneScoop...
With nationwide wireless number portability coming to US comsumers tomorrow, we thought a few tips would be appropriate: Amazon.com has a page on how to transfer your number if you want to get a new phone/contract through them. Very detailed....
It was announced today that since November, 2.8 million Americans have taken advantage of number portability. The FCC says that the number had only a minor effect on the overall "churn rate" for the wireless industry. May 24th is the...
The FCC today released a status update for number portability complaints [download, PDF]. Overall complaints are fairly low, but AT&T Wireless has a large lead: AT&T Wireless - 2787 Sprint PCS - 1445 Verizon Wireless - 933 T-Mobile - 854...
Chalk this up in the history books--US cellular customers got something before Japanese cellular customers. Back in October 2003, we mentioned that Japan may be getting number portability. According to Retuers, it looks like a go. It could happen as...
According to Reuters, T-Mobile USA is having the best luck with number portability thus far. In the last quarter, the company added 1M subscribers--more than Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless combined. This brings the total to over 13M. T-Mobile UK...
T-Mobile USA said that while the total number of customers choosing to switch carriers was lower than expected, the company has a net gain. The company claims nearly twice as many people opted to switch to T-Mobile than from T-Mobile....
The San Francisco Chronicle published an article that details some of the problems consumers have had switching carriers: "Lin [a wireless analyst with American Technology Research] estimated that there have been problems with roughly a quarter of the transfers industrywide....
