Vonage continues to ignore the applicable legal standard for special...
Vonage continues to ignore the applicable legal standard for special relief through a waiver, Bandwidth.com and Level 3 told the FCC (http://bit.ly/12XUOju). Vonage must meet a “heavy burden” to show there are “special circumstances” that give Vonage a unique need…
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“apart from all of the other non-carriers that would also like to have direct access to number resources without the burdens of becoming and remaining carriers,” the CLECs said. If the rules are going to be changed to give non-carriers direct access to number resources, “they should be simultaneously changed for everyone” in a rulemaking “that addresses the matter holistically,” they said. The “supposed benefits” raised by Vonage -- IP interconnection, bill and keep compensation, product enhancement, increased call quality and number portability -- are “readily achievable by Vonage today” by simply becoming a telecom carrier, the CLECs said. “The fact that Vonage is not a CLEC is purely a matter of choice."