BellSouth’s request for a change in how carriers pay for local nu...
BellSouth’s request for a change in how carriers pay for local number portability and thousands-block number pooling makes a lot of sense, USTelecom said in comments filed Thurs. BellSouth sought a rulemaking to replace today’s system, in which carriers…
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pay shared costs based on revenue. USTelecom said BellSouth argued “persuasively” that market changes justify funding system revisions. “The current allocation mechanism requires certain carriers to pay for costs that they do not cause,” USTelecom said: “In BellSouth’s case, for example, while the percentage of transactions that it has generated over the last three years has declined, its allocated portion of the shared LNP and pooling costs over the same period has more than quadrupled.”