ADVISORY/Consumer Affairs: Wireless Phone Numbers Become Flexible Nationwide.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (May 13th) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004 On May 24, wireless consumers nationwide will be able to switch wireless carriers without having to change their phone numbers. With that deadline fast approaching, the Cellular Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. & Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Association, CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. - the Wireless Association, would like to invite you to join us via conference call to discuss this new opportunity for wireless consumers. This event will provide the information that your readership/viewership needs in order to take advantage of this opportunity and examine some of the challenges unique to consumers and telephone companies outside the 100 largest metro areas This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. .
Who: Steve Largent, President and CEO, CTIA
Terry Addington, President and CEO, First Cellular of
Southern Illinois
Mike Altschul, General Counsel, CTIA
When: Thursday May 13th, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST
To Join: Dial toll free 866-745-3713
Enter the participant passcode: 379036
RSVP: Erin McGee, emcgee@ctia.org
Erin will provide participants background materials via
e-mail before the event
Background:
Since November 24, 2003, more than 3 million consumers in the top 100
largest metro areas have taken advantage of the opportunity to change
carriers without changing their numbers. On May 24, that opportunity
will become available nationwide. Every wireless number will
officially be eligible, but technical difficulties could limit some
transfers. The Federal Communications Commission has also mandated
that wireline consumers be able to take their numbers to wireless
carriers, but some state public utility commissions are granting
waivers to these companies. Find out more Thursday.
CTIA is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers Internet provider - Internet Service Provider . www.ctia.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. |
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