The CLEC industry has “significant” concerns about a series of...
The CLEC industry has “significant” concerns about a series of “unresolved regulatory issues” in connection with petitions from Vonage and others for limited waiver of the rules on direct access to number resources, representatives of Level 3, Bandwidth.com and Comptel…
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told an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Monday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnbsgh). Granting the petitions would be “discriminatory, essentially providing carrier rights to certain non-carriers that do not also shoulder carrier obligations,” they said, arguing the petitioners have not met the “heavy burden” necessary to demonstrate special circumstances that warrant deviation from the rules. “There is no question that granting direct access to Vonage or other Petitioners will accelerate number exhaust,” they said. If the commission intends to grant VoIP providers direct access to number resources, it should do so in “an orderly and nondiscriminatory rulemaking proceeding” instead of on a waiver basis that will lead to “amplified regulatory confusion,” the CLECs said.