The Kentucky Public Service Commission is forcing the North American...
The Kentucky Public Service Commission is forcing the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) to grant more numbers to Windstream Kentucky East, the PSC said in a Wednesday order (http://xrl.us/bnshkf). NANPA had denied Windstream’s earlier request, which sought a single…
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block of one-thousand numbers, according to the order. NANPA had denied Windstream’s application based on its failure to match FCC guidelines, the commission said. But “NANPA is not a policy-making entity,” the PSC judged, overturning NANPA’s decision. Windstream had demonstrated a “verifiable need” for new numbers, it said. These new numbers should go to “the sole use of serving Windstream’s need for an LRN [location routing number] needed for deployment of a new switch and corresponding service in connection with a Broadband Stimulus project upgrade in the noted exchange,” the PSC said. If the numbers aren’t needed, they should be returned to NANPA, the commission added.