Level 3, CompTel, Bandwidth.com and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association...
Level 3, CompTel, Bandwidth.com and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association have procedural and substantive concerns regarding the many VoIP provider petitions for direct access to number resources, they told FCC Wireline Bureau officials, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnniiy). Granting…
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individual waivers would be discriminatory, and there are no “special circumstances” that would give any of the 15 petitioners precedence over the others, or over the “hundreds of non-petitioning carriers and VoIP providers that would like the same unique advantage,” they said. “The paradigm shift that would be effected by granting direct access to numbers to non-carriers is too important to be addressed in a waiver petition.” Nor will granting the waivers promote IP interconnection, they said. “Promoting the agreements of one or a handful of providers would prejudge the results of that proceeding in a manner that ultimately undermines a logical, well-ordered, and legally sound transition to IP interconnection arrangements.” Numbers should only be directly assigned to carriers, and any alternatives should only be considered in a rulemaking procedure, they said.