Several parties opposed a petition by Millicorp and SmartEdgeNet for...
Several parties opposed a petition by Millicorp and SmartEdgeNet for a waiver that would give the VoIP providers direct access to numbering resources from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator and Pooling Administrator (CD Apr 25 p12). Joint comments filed…
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by Bandwidth.com, Level 3 and Comptel argued the petitioners did not meet the legal standard for a waiver, failing to address issues relating to number exhaust, routing, intercarrier compensation or interconnection (http://xrl.us/bm6t25). Securus Technologies, which manages communications for use by correctional facilities, opposed Millicorp’s petition, arguing a grant of the waiver would harm the public interest (http://xrl.us/bm6t3f). Millicorp’s petition said it operates ConsCallHome.com, which lets inmates reduce the cost of calling friends and families. Securus characterized this as a “scheme” that re-routes calls from prisons to “unknown, untraceable terminating telephone numbers,” raising serious safety and security issues. The commission should not “aid in this scheme” by granting Millicorp a waiver of numbering rules, Securus said. The California Public Utilities Commission, however, generally supported the idea that since VoIP providers don’t depend on the legacy geographic basis for number assignment, “the CPUC sees the potential for allowing VoIP providers access to the NANP as an opportunity to not only eliminate a structure which makes number utilization inefficient, but also to lessen the impact of code assignment in areas where there are no likely end users for those codes” (http://xrl.us/bm6t3o).