MOBILE phone users may soon have more freedom to switch from one service provider to another without even changing their mobile numbers with the Senate’s passage of the Lifetime Cellphone Number Act on final reading.

Authored by Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, Senate Bill (SB) 1636 would soon provide mobile users with the option of keeping their existing mobile numbers even as they switch networks or mode of subscription services like form prepaid to postpaid and vice versa.

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