Inouye, Stevens: Shorten Number Portability

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) have written Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin expressing concern about phone number portability, the ability of phone customers to keep their number when they switch services. The senators suggested that the FCC might need to shorten that porting interval to "reduce the possibility of anticompetitive behavior."
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