Cell Phone Companies Prepare for Effects of Number Portability.

The Business Press (San Bernardino, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......phone provider and keep her cell phone number, saving the trouble and expense...Qmotion Inc., has kept the same cell phone number and service with AT&T for...and plans while maintaining a cell phone number. The site suggests phone users...

Cell-Phone Companies Brace for Upheaval As Gates to Number Freedom Open.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Henderson stopped passing out her cell phone number altogether. Just when friends got used to calling her at one cell phone number, she had switched to a new...the first couple of months of cell phone number portability, she added. In...

Wireless Companies Press Their Case against Portability of Cell-Phone...

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ......people out there that have my cell phone number, said Hipes, director of Kimco...consumer, are able to keep your cell phone number, you will feel much more free...probably can't remember his cell phone number, said Michael Doherty, wireless...

CELL PHONE USERS WARY OF DIRECTORY MANY ARE ADAMANT THAT THEIR NUMBERS NOT...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 18, 2004 ;     454 words ......Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people -- her family...mail to a post office box. Her cell phone number is even more sacred. This kind...Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people -- her family...

KEEP YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER? FEDERAL REGULATORS RESPOND TO CONSUMERS WHO...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  November 10, 2003 ;     338 words ......letting people keep their cell phone numbers when they switch...home phone numbers to a cell phone. The government is responding...the same local number. Cell phone users who have long...from a home phone to a cell phone. An FCC announcement...are much narrower ...

Cell phone directory draws Senate scrutiny

Charleston Gazette;  June 18, 2004 ;     319 words ......has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people...office box. Her cell phone number is even...proponents of a national cell phone directory. Nationwide...to be listed in phone directories. They...to ensure that cell phone users do not face...

SWITCH CARRIER, KEEP NUMBER< CELL PHONE USERS IN RURAL AREAS CAN NOW...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  May 24, 2004 ;     544 words ......with me. Today, cell phone subscribers across...losing their phone number. The FCC has...that rule allows cell phone subscribers to keep their phone number when they switch...transferred their home phone number to a cell phone. But there's...

No need to register cell phone for do-not-call

Doings, The (Burr Ridge - Darien - Willowbrook, IL);  December 7, 2006 ;     500 words ......necessary to register your personal cell phone number on the National Do Not Call...would like to register their cell phone number may certainly do so, for free...concerned that your personal cell phone number will be released to telemarketers...

Cell phone users opposed to directory

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  July 10, 2004 ;     541 words ......times when he needs someone's cell phone number and has no way to get it...able to call up and get their cell phone number," Martin said. But Martin said...if they don't have a current cell phone number (of a student)" and ask for...

Cell phone database may be on horizon

University Wire;  May 24, 2004 ;     499 words ......Calif. -- Finding someone's cell phone number may soon be as easy as dialing...working on a database of cell phone numbers that would include...until recently, many cell phone users were changing carriers...subscribers to keep their phone number when switching ...

FCC Passes Cell Phone Number Portability Regulation

The State Journal;  June 20, 2003 ;     603 words ......update their latest cell phone number, be prepared to put...inability to carry over a cell phone number from one carrier to...maintaining the same phone number. "It's the same concept...definitely going to require cell phone companies to communicate...

Block numbers, Cell phone directory won't mean more telemarketers,...

Charleston Gazette;  December 10, 2004 ;     587 words ......worried that a cell phone directory due...to compile a cell phone number database. The...landline or cell phone number if customers...the number of cell phone subscribers...free to list a phone number, but cost...

Cell Phone Customers Can Switch Carriers, Keep Same Phone Number.

Newsday (Melville, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......just 10 days, cell phone customers will...keep the same phone number. In what is seen as a watershed for cell phone users, new government...to get a better cell phone plan without having...wedded to their phone number, said Rich Sayers...keep the same ...

West likely to resist cell phone directory

Daily Breeze;  June 18, 2004 ;     491 words ......has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people...office box. Her cell phone number is even...proponents of a national cell phone directory. Nationwide...not be listed in phone directories. They...to ensure that cell phone users do not face...

Privacy Could Hamper Cell Phone Directory

AP Online;  June 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people _ her family...Californian, has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people _ her family...mail to a post office box. Her cell phone number is even more sacred. "Even...