Granting Vonage direct access to telephone numbers would give the...
Granting Vonage direct access to telephone numbers would give the FCC’s technology transitions task force “valuable, real-world data on the transition to IP networks,” the telecom provider told FCC officials Friday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/Vbj8Mk). Vonage has faced…
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difficulties as a result of lack of direct access, it said: Carriers don’t know which numbers are Vonage numbers, which “creates hurdles to IP interconnection.” Suggestions that Vonage depend on CLECs to obtain IP interconnection is “misplaced” because CLECs have little reason to pursue the end-to-end IP interconnection subjection to bill-and-keep compensation that Vonage is seeking, it said. And indirect IP interconnection through a CLEC doesn’t offer the same service quality that direct interconnection arrangements offer, it said. “The myriad objections raised by the CLECs to Vonage obtaining direct access to telephone numbers including number exhaust, routing, and intercarrier compensation have already been comprehensively addressed,” it said. “There is no reason for further delay."