Article: Switching Cell-Phone Carrier Is Easier with FCC Number-Portability Rules.

Article: Change your phone company but keep your ...
M2 Presswire;  January 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-21 January 2000-UK GOVERNMENT: Change your phone company but keep your phone number (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21012000 People and businesses now have the right to keep their fixed telephone ...

Article: FCC Passes Cell Phone Number Portability Regulation
The State Journal;  June 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... update their latest cell phone number, be prepared to put ... said you can keep your phone number. A federal court agreed ... already switch from one phone company to another while maintaining the same phone number. "It's the same concept ...

Article: NOW, A PHONE WITHOUT THE PHONE COMPANY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... NOW, A PHONE WITHOUT THE PHONE COMPANY -- N.J. FIRM TRANSPORTS ... a new phone line and new phone number -- and cut the phone company out of the loop. The service ... connected, a user will get a new phone number (the 646 area code will ...

Article: PacificEast Challenges Use of 411 Directory Assistance with ...
PR Newswire;  October 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... obtain the highest quality phone number and address data using the ... a reverse search using a phone number or address. Affordability ... Using DesktopSELECT, if a phone number was activated by a phone company within the past 48 hours ...

Article: ANNIE'S MAILBOX: Call phone company about prank ...
Charleston Gazette;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... harassment, I contacted my phone company to find out who was ... Once I received the phone number, I immediately called ... to someone at your phone company and ask if there is ... reaching your home. The phone company often can block calls ...

Transcript: Profile: Mobile phone numbers can now be transferred from one ...
NPR Morning Edition;  November 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... transferred from one phone company to another Host: BOB ... to take your wireless phone number with you, too, when you leave your cell phone company for a competitor. NPR ... Chairman, FCC): Your phone number belongs to you and you ...

Article: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A PHONE NUMBER FOR ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  April 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... telephone engineers a phone number for life would ... Customers, not the phone company, would own their ... operated not by a phone company, but by a division ... also become the phone-number company. "Phone ... to a particular phone company to remain ...