The Federal Communications Commission reported that more than 2 million consumers ported their telephone numbers since wireless local number portability was implemented last November, including both wireless-to-wireless porting and wireline-to-wireless porting. The commission noted 613,000 ports were requested last month between wireless carriers and another 49,000 requests were made between wireline and wireless operators.
Porting requests are expected to receive a boost later this month when the remaining one-third of consumers not covered by the original Nov. 24 LNP deadline that included the nation’s top 100 markets are scheduled to be offered the ability to port their telephone numbers.
