The FCC should not “engage in a rush...
The FCC should not “engage in a rush to judgment” and give non-carrier providers like Vonage direct access to numbering resources, a group of CLECs told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Monday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/11RZckj). The commission must give…
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“fair consideration” to several outstanding issues, it said, such as how non-carrier providers will be obligated to pay intercarrier compensation or interconnect with other carriers. The CLECs, including Bandwidth.com and Level 3, discussed their concerns about number exhaust, number portability and call routing, and urged the commission to address these issues in a rulemaking rather than by granting multiple waivers or trials. “The issue of direct access to numbering resources cannot be addressed piecemeal, separate and apart from other IP interconnection and IP transition issues,” they said.