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Wireless World: Keeping phone numbers |
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by UPI
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01 Mar 2005
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A story about the portability of mobile phone numbers. |
CHICAGO -- Tired of the terrible customer service at your wireless carrier, but concerned if you switch everyone who knows your mobile number will be unable to reach you? Not to worry. Mobile phone numbers are now portable -- meaning you can take them with you from one carrier to another, as if they were personal property.
The rule allowing consumers to do this was authorized by the Federal Communications Commission just over a year ago, though experts told UPI's Wireless World that customers largely are just beginning to learn of it.
"In general, things are going pretty well," said Doug Brueckner, senior vice president of wireless at Convergys, a developer of wireless billing software in Cincinnati. "There have been a number of people taking advantage of it -- a pretty substantial number. What is driving it is that consumers want to have a choice." By Gene Koprowski |
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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050225-094246-9787r
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