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 ...

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 ...

Initial interest in porting telephone numbers didn't match the hype surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's recent mandate. Monday was the first day that telephone customers could switch ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Starting Monday, 70 million more U.S. mobile-phone users got to potentially keep their number if they switched mobile providers, as the Federal Communications Commission ...

One of the many factors that regulators have introduced to increase competition in voice telephony is the concept of number portability. Because many customers are reluctant to change phone numbers in ...