Bandwidth.com and Level 3 warned that the “eleventh...
Bandwidth.com and Level 3 warned that the “eleventh hour bilateral discussions” between Vonage and the FCC “appear to be focused on developing a Vonage trial geared toward serving Vonage interests,” they said in a Tuesday letter to the FCC (http://bit.ly/17oS5wZ).…
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The FCC is scheduled to vote on an order Thursday that would give Vonage and others a trial period of direct access to numbering resources. Vonage spoke with FCC officials during the Sunshine period, but said the meeting was permitted by statute (CD April 17 p14). “Making last minute calls to the intended recipient of a special waiver is not a transparent manner in which an administrative agency should arrive at reasoned decisions,” said Bandwidth.com and Level 3. Rather than considering “last-minute condition requests by Vonage for its own waiver,” the commission should “set aside the trial concept and conduct an equitable rulemaking,” they said. The CLECs urged the commission to delay the vote “in order to allow concerned parties to fully participate,” because “transparent process has not been followed."