Numbering databases are the “key” to the IP...
Numbering databases are the “key” to the IP transition, AT&T Vice President-Policy Hank Hultquist said in a blog post Monday (http://bit.ly/12dfPBf). The FCC “took matters into its own hands,” he said, when it began the process to give interconnected VoIP…
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providers direct access to numbers (CD April 19 p1). Also important was the commission’s seeking comment on database and routing issues that need to be resolved to enable the transition to all-IP interconnection, he said. “It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of these database and routing issues. Numbering databases may seem like the driest of telecom issues, but they are the key to enabling this transition,” Hultquist wrote. With a database in place that associates IP routing information with telephone numbers, “service providers will be free to figure out all of the details needed to move to a world of all-IP interconnection,” he said.