Carriers claim intermodal porting issues remain; Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA claim 30 percent of ports fail.(News)

RCR Wireless News, March, 2007

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The mobile phone industry is pressing the Federal Communications Commission to force Bell telephone companies to promptly process wireless number porting requests, with cellular carriers claiming they are losing business because of delays and obstacles in moving landline customers to wireless networks.

The controversy is playing out as mobile phones increasingly become substitutes for landline phones. What makes the dustup especially interesting is the largest Bell companies-AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.-own the two largest mobile phone carriers in the United States. No. 3 and No.4 have a beef Competing mobile phone carriers typically complete each other's porting requests in matter of hours, requiring...

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