Sprint Responds to FCC Ruling on Wireline to Wireless Porting
November 10 2003 - 6:39PM
PR Newswire (US)
Sprint Responds to FCC Ruling on Wireline to Wireless Porting
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint applauds the
Federal Communications Commission for its decision issued today
providing guidelines for the porting of phone numbers from wireline
to wireless phones. Local number portability holds the promise to
enhance consumer choice and improve competition, and today's action
will ensure that the full benefits of portability will extend to
landline customers as well. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001013/SPRINTLOGO ) With its
local, long distance and wireless assets, Sprint is the best
positioned company in the telecommunications industry to benefit
from either those who elect to remain wireline customers or the
growing trend of Americans who are cutting the cord. Compared with
its wireless competitors, Sprint has a large customer base of tech
savvy young adults, innovators who are abandoning their landlines
altogether. According to the Yankee Group, 12 percent of adults
aged 18 to 24 have cut the cord to go wireless and another 28
percent plan to do so in the next five years. As the November 24
deadline for availability of number porting approaches, Sprint and
many wireless carriers already have reached agreements with each
other to make the porting process easier. Wireline and wireless
providers should be able to do the same so that consumers have true
freedom to communicate in the manner that best suits them, with a
phone number that stays the same. Sprint's Local Division is fully
prepared to meet the requirements of today's ruling. Wireless
companies have faced each other in a highly competitive market for
years, and consumers have seen lower prices, innovative services
and better features as a result. The FCC's move today sets the
stage to make consumer choice and the competitive environment even
stronger. About Sprint Sprint is a global integrated communications
provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100
countries. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly
$27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network
technologies, including the United States' first nationwide
all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in
39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest
100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United
States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ .
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Sprint CONTACT: Dan
Wilinsky, +1-913-794-2967, , or Jennifer Walsh, +1-913-794-2950, ,
both of Sprint Web site: http://www.sprintpcs.com/
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