THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY October 30, 2003 wireless number portability
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Find more information and register at http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=2903. ________________ TODAY'S WORD: wireless number portability See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci934059,00.html?track=NL-34 Wireless number portability is the ability of a mobile customer to retain the same phone number when they switch carriers. The lack of number portability between wireless providers has kept many consumers from changing services because of the inconvenience of changing their phone number on business cards and other documents, and informing all their contacts of the new number. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that all wireless carriers must implement number portability by November 24, 2003. As a consequence of the new capability, mobile customers are likely to switch carriers more often, thus increasing competition among wireless service providers, just as Local Number Portability (LNP) did among wireline telephone companies when it was put into effect in the late-1990s. According to a Forrester Research report, almost 22 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers would consider switching service providers if they could keep their current number, while only nine percent would do so if they had to get a new number. Wireline-to-wireless number portability, expected in the near future, will give customers the ability to switch from their landline telephone service to a wireless provider while retaining the same telephone number. According to Ron Cowles, vice president of research at Gartner, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is expected to mandate wireless-to-wireline portability as early as mid-2004. Gartner projects that up to 10 percent of current wireline customers will switch to wireless once they can do that without changing their telephone numbers. _______________________ RELATED TERMS: Local Number Portability http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214079,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: Barney Beal's SearchCRM article explores the effects of wireless number portability in "The new churn concern." http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci932757,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: TORVALDS: TEST KERNEL CRUCIAL FOR PROACTIVE ENTERPRISES In this interview, Linus Torvalds talks up the test version of the 2.6 Linux kernel, which was released last weekend. 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