FCC issued order Wed. requiring incumbent LECs to make their dire...
FCC issued order Wed. requiring incumbent LECs to make their directory assistance databases accessible to competing directory providers. Agency said it was essential for competitive directory providers to have access to those updated databases. Because ILECs derive their databases…
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from their telephone service order processes, they continue to maintain control over most listings, FCC said. Commission said access must be on nondiscriminatory basis and be available at reasonable rates. CLECs often don’t have resources to provide their own directory assistance so they depend on those alternative providers, FCC said in order. However, Commission said ILECs didn’t have to grant access to national or “nonlocal” directory assistance databases because ILECs didn’t have monopoly control over them. Agency also resolved some outstanding issues relating to access to subscriber information by Internet-based directory publishers. It said Internet publishers should have same nondiscriminatory access and reasonable rates as other directory providers. Commission also concluded that publishers of telephone directories on Internet shouldn’t be restricted in how they displayed or allowed customers to access such data. Like several other orders issued this week, this one was approved on Fri. and included then-FCC Chmn. Kennard’s vote.