Article: e.spire Will Implement Number Portability Nationwide in 1998, Speeding Ability to Provision and Add New Customers

Company Successfully Tests and Launches Local Number Portability

 
  in Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth and Washington-Baltimore 

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- e.spire Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESPI) today announced that it has successfully launched local number portability (LNP) for customers in three major markets -- Kansas City, MO, Dallas-Fort Worth and Washington-Baltimore -- and is on-schedule to introduce LNP in e.spire markets nationwide by year-end 1998. e.spire's implementation of sophisticated LNP solutions in markets coast-to-coast allows customers to keep their own telephone numbers when switching to e.spire. ...

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