Vonage, SmartEdgeNet, WilTel, IntelePeer and Millicorp are the...
Vonage, SmartEdgeNet, WilTel, IntelePeer and Millicorp are the interconnected VoIP providers that will participate in a six-month trial giving them direct access to numbers, the FCC Wireline Bureau said (http://bit.ly/11o8HWR). The commission will use the information gleaned to inform its…
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broader rulemaking on direct access to numbering by entities that have not been classified as telecom carriers, it said. During the trial, the commission will examine issues of number exhaust, number porting, VoIP interconnection and intercarrier compensation, to see how to best address those issues, it said. The bureau declined to accept a proposal by Fractel to participate in the trial, as the commission decided only to accept proposals from companies with pending petitions for direct number access on file, it said.