Level 3 and Bandwidth.com officials spoke with FCC Wireline Bureau...
Level 3 and Bandwidth.com officials spoke with FCC Wireline Bureau officials and an aide to Chairman Julius Genachowski Monday about their opposition to the several pending petitions seeking direct access to numbering resources, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/WrNZPK). “If…
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the Commission is inclined to act, only a broad, comprehensive NPRM will ensure that commission action does not provide special treatment to one party while discriminating against other industry members,” the filing said. The CLECs stated their opposition to the idea of using waivers as a way of conducting “live test cases,” they said. If the commission does want to conduct a trial, it must be transparent and limited in scope and duration, they said. On Friday, Vonage urged the Wireline Bureau to move forward with its waiver “in a manner that will foster the success of any efforts to deploy IP interconnection and capture the benefits of direct access to numbers” (http://bit.ly/13olIRs).