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Level 3, CompTel and Bandwidth.com have “urgent concerns” with the...

Level 3, CompTel and Bandwidth.com have “urgent concerns” with the petitions of Vonage and others for limited waiver of the rules regarding direct access to number resources, they told the FCC Wireline Bureau chief and staff Tuesday, an ex parte…

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filing said (http://xrl.us/bnhke7). Granting any of the waivers would be “discriminatory vis à vis carriers that continue to comply with both federal and state rules,” they said. Granting special ad hoc treatment for individual providers that give them competitive advantages would be “arbitrary and capricious and a violation of due process”; the bureau should implement a rulemaking to deal with the complex issues in the waivers, they said. A rulemaking could also look at other concerns that have been raised, such as the lack of requirements for porting numbers from a carrier to a non-carrier, they said.