CTIA, CCA Make Joint Proposal to FCC on Number Porting
CTIA and the Competitive Carriers Association jointly offered the FCC near- and longer-term solutions for enabling consumers to keep their phone number no matter where they live or work. The groups, in a letter filed Friday, said they are responding…
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to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who on July called on them and the largest national carriers to identify practical solutions to nationwide number portability. “Many consumers consider their wireless number a part of their identity, and believe they can port their telephone number to any provider when they move to a new location,” CCA President Steve Berry said in a news release. “Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and both consumers and carriers are negatively impacted by the inability to port a number.” Under the proposal, carriers can “voluntarily enter contractual arrangements with third parties with access to numbering resources in areas where the … provider doesn’t have a network presence, to offer providers access to the local area of the telephone number of the potential subscriber,” Berry said.