What is wireless number portability?
Wireless Number Portability (WNP) is a wireless consumer’s ability to change service providers within the same general metropolitan area or local calling area and keep their existing phone number. WNP also allows consumers to move a phone number from a wireline phone to a wireless phone (and vice versa). Canada will be the second country in the world (after the US) to offer complete wireless-to-wireless, wireless-to-wireline and wireline-to-wireless portability.
Local number portability (LNP) enables customers to keep the same phone number when changing service providers or carriers. The transferring of landline numbers to other landline numbers has existed for several years. Now, thanks to wireless number portability (WNP), which is often also referred to as Local Number Portability, customers will also be able to keep the same phone number when transferring their landline phone service to wireless service and vice versa.
