From Amazon.com:
Do you want to switch cell phone carriers but keep your current cell phone number? You're in luck. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is requiring all carriers to support Wireless Local Number Portability, which is a service that allows customers to keep their cell phone number when they switch carriers. The FCC also passed rules allowing you to transfer your current home landline phone number to a cell phone. This means that you can order a cell phone from most of the carriers offered by Amazon.com and transfer your current wireless or wireline number to your new service. Carriers are required to begin offering number portability on November 24, 2003, to the top U.S. metropolitan areas (but you don't have to wait until then to order your phone from Amazon.com--you can order your phone immediately and transfer your number November 24).
Transferring your cell phone number is easy when you order from Amazon.com. You won't have to wait in line at a store while your number is transferred from your previous carrier to your new one. And, in some cases, you will be assigned a temporary phone number for your new phone so that you can use it until your transfer is completed (you can even forward your calls from your current phone to your new phone in the interim). Best of all, when you buy a cell phone from Amazon.com and transfer your number, you will still qualify for all of our great rebates and discounts.
Each of the carriers handles number portability a bit differently, so we've outlined carrier-based instructions below.
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this means i can get my new phone tomorrow and get my number transferred in a week !!!
Do you want to switch cell phone carriers but keep your current cell phone number? You're in luck. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is requiring all carriers to support Wireless Local Number Portability, which is a service that allows customers to keep their cell phone number when they switch carriers. The FCC also passed rules allowing you to transfer your current home landline phone number to a cell phone. This means that you can order a cell phone from most of the carriers offered by Amazon.com and transfer your current wireless or wireline number to your new service. Carriers are required to begin offering number portability on November 24, 2003, to the top U.S. metropolitan areas (but you don't have to wait until then to order your phone from Amazon.com--you can order your phone immediately and transfer your number November 24).
Transferring your cell phone number is easy when you order from Amazon.com. You won't have to wait in line at a store while your number is transferred from your previous carrier to your new one. And, in some cases, you will be assigned a temporary phone number for your new phone so that you can use it until your transfer is completed (you can even forward your calls from your current phone to your new phone in the interim). Best of all, when you buy a cell phone from Amazon.com and transfer your number, you will still qualify for all of our great rebates and discounts.
Each of the carriers handles number portability a bit differently, so we've outlined carrier-based instructions below.
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this means i can get my new phone tomorrow and get my number transferred in a week !!!
