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Bandwidth.com has been experiencing difficulties with Level 3 when it...

Bandwidth.com has been experiencing difficulties with Level 3 when it comes to “project porting,” a lawyer for the first company told FCC Wireline Bureau officials Thursday, according to an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bnbke9). Because Level 3 only allows 5,000 port…

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outs a day, for larger projects it often runs afoul of a 15-day best practice proposed by the North America Numbering Council, the ISP said. It urged rapid adoption of the 15-day number porting rule, with the clarification that the old service provider “shall not have any right to dictate the porting schedule of project port requests” from a new provider. Bandwidth also argued that numbering waivers are “inappropriate for resolution of far reaching and critical industry matters that are also already raised in the Commission’s on-going work to transition to a Broadband IP market.” Level 3 had no comment.