The FCC Wireline Bureau gave the Montana Public...
The FCC Wireline Bureau gave the Montana Public Service Commission permission to begin “mandatory thousands-block number pooling” in the 406 numbering plan area, as the state regulators had requested, it said in a Thursday order (http://bit.ly/11fzzsQ). The Montana PSC asked…
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for the permission in November of 2011. “Demand for number resources has increased and the 406 area code numbering resources are dwindling,” the state regulators told the FCC, according to the order. The PSC also argued that Montana companies used the numbering resources inefficiently. It didn’t satisfy all the FCC’s tests for granting such requests but showed “special circumstances,” the order said.