Level 3 President Jeff Storey, Bandwidth.com President John Murdock and...
Level 3 President Jeff Storey, Bandwidth.com President John Murdock and other industry officials met with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and staff to discuss their “urgent concerns” about petitions by VoIP providers seeking direct access to number resources. “If the Commission…
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is inclined to allow non-carriers direct access to phone numbers, the right way to accomplish that is by denying the petitions and issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking,” said an ex parte filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bnj7p5). “Conducting a rulemaking proceeding would not only provide equal treatment to all providers (both as to the process for changing the rules and under the rules resulting from that process), but it would also give the industry adequate notice and lead-time to make operational and business plan adjustments.” Granting the waivers “will not advance the industry-wide transition to IP interconnection, as certain Petitioners have claimed,” the filing said. “Granting one non-carrier direct access to phone numbers will have no impact on the intransigence of the largest ILECs, which have to date been resistant to IP interconnection with their CLEC competitors."