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Article: Verizon Wireless Fights Effort by Companies to Kill Number Portability Through Customer Coercion; Some Wireless Carriers Threaten to Hold Customers' Mobile Phone Numbers Hostage With New Fees and Barriers to Switching Wireless Service Providers.
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- PR Newswire
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- August 14, 2003
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BEDMINSTER, N.J., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Taking square aim at the anti-consumer, anti-competitive official position of many of its competitors, Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's largest and most reliable wireless network, today stood firm in support of wireless customers' ability to keep their mobile phone numbers when switching from one wireless service provider to another. In a filing today, Verizon Wireless urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject schemes from ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint that would, if allowed, create new barriers to wireless customers who want to change service providers while keeping their mobile ...