NARUC has several concerns about the FCC’s recent...
NARUC has several concerns about the FCC’s recent decision to give VoIP providers direct access to numbers, it told Wireline Bureau officials Thursday (http://bit.ly/17OVxDj). Members of NARUC’s “State Call Group” said they were “surprised” and “concerned” by the decision to…
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hold trials. It’s “imperative” that states be given access to the numbering databases in order to verify the accuracy of information submitted by any VoIP trial participants, NARUC said. NARUC also questioned the duration of the test -- “too short” given the amount of time needed to activate new local routing number codes; and the scope of the trial, which will “not allow most States to have any real world experience dealing with the VoIP carriers directly,” it said. During the trial, end users should not be allowed to select numbers from any exchange area without regard for where the end user is located, NARUC said. Finally, states need a “comprehensive list” of which LECs or other numbering partners from whom the VoIP providers are getting their numbers, NARUC said. NARUC also had several questions on the details of the trials, such as when a VoIP provider would be required to return numbering resources, how the geographic scope of the trial will be determined, and whether VoIP carriers will be responsible for intercarrier compensation on the same basis as LECs and others, it said.