The FCC Wireline Bureau made some changes on...
The FCC Wireline Bureau made some changes on local number portability (LNP), as recommended by the North American Numbering Council, while declining to approve a NANC preference involving states and changes to area codes. The bureau didn’t make any changes…
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related to LNP administrator, which is the subject of a separate public notice after the NANC recommended a unit of Ericsson be the next LNP administrator, a job now held by Neustar. (See separate report in this issue.) LNP “provisioning flows” to improve the phone number porting process will be improved via changes to canceling a number port request, stopping new service providers from prematurely activating ports and other clarifications, said a bureau order released in Monday’s FCC Daily Digest (http://bit.ly/V6bFQ4). “Notwithstanding” the NANC’s “preference for area code overlays over area code splits,” the order said it clarified that “states still have the option to choose the best means of implementing area code relief for their citizens.”