There are several outstanding questions regarding any potential grant of...
There are several outstanding questions regarding any potential grant of waivers to VoIP services providers that want to become direct holders of public telephone numbering resources, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association told FCC Wireline Bureau officials Tuesday, an ex parte…
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filing said (http://xrl.us/bm9yft). In particular, NTCA wants to know what interconnection regime would apply if the VoIP providers intend to seek “trunk-side” interconnection; whether the VoIP providers plan to use “line-side” interconnection instead, such that they would use carrier partners to obtain interconnection; and whether a VoIP provider that obtains direct access to public numbering resources could choose to block calls to any given carrier, “since the VoIP provider itself is not a regulated carrier.”