Bandwidth.com asked the FCC to implement a mandatory port-out period that...
Bandwidth.com asked the FCC to implement a mandatory port-out period that would not exceed 30 days for projects porting more than 200 telephone numbers, it told commission staff Wednesday, according to an ex parte letter filed Friday (http://xrl.us/bmw24f). Bandwidth.com is…
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experiencing “significant project porting problems” with wholesale porting, because under North American Numbering Council best practice #67, any project that ports more than 200 numbers “could be read to include tacit commission approval for the Old Service Provider to ‘negotiate’ a schedule by which it would perform port-outs,” the company said. As a wholesale carrier that commonly ports far more than 200 numbers at a time, “a system that includes even a suggestion that the Old Service Provider retains control of the port out schedule because it may ‘negotiate’ a project port plan with the New Service Provider is inherently flawed,” it said. The carrier also discussed comments it had made in filings, emphasizing that complex routing, number exhaust, interconnection and Intercarrier compensation issues “remain unsolved."