If Vonage acquires its own numbering resources, Level 3 expects...
If Vonage acquires its own numbering resources, Level 3 expects to see a “significant and rapid erosion in the revenue that it receives from Vonage,” it told the FCC in a letter posted Monday (http://xrl.us/bn3mjs). Level 3 was responding to…
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Wireline Bureau questions on the financial impact to Level 3 if the commission grants Vonage’s long-pending request for direct access to numbering resources (CD March 11/11 p11). The telecom services provider said it’s developing a product to host telephone numbers assigned to customers, which could mitigate a “small fraction” of the lost Vonage revenue, but such a product is at least two or three quarters away. Granting the Vonage or any of the other waivers would likely not facilitate IP to IP interconnection, because in Level 3’s experience, a “current waiver holder” showed a “tepid interest in discussing interconnection,” Level 3 said. Level 3 declined to respond to a bureau inquiry on the industry-wide financial impact if the bureau grants the many outstanding requests for direct access to numbering resources. “If the Commission is inclined to focus on the financial impacts on the industry, the best way to obtain reliable information in that regard would be through a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,” Level 3 said. An NPRM process would also help answer the “myriad of technical, operational, and other concerns” raised by the waiver requests, Level 3 said.