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It’s ’telling’ that state regulators were only parties expressing...

It’s “telling” that state regulators were only parties expressing support for FCC’s reversing ban on service-specific and technology-specific numbering overlays, USTA told Commission in comments filed March 7. “It is the states, rather than the public or the carriers,…

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who would benefit from a lifting of the prohibition,” USTA said. If states could implement permanent overlays “they could become a substitute for true [numbering] relief efforts,” association charged. Overlays aren’t “efficient use of numbering resources” and conflict with Commission-ordered wireless local number portability requirement, USTA said.