FCC Seeks Comment on Somos Waiver Bid on Toll-Free Number Allocation
The FCC teed up a Somos petition seeking a temporary waiver of a "first-come, first-served" rule for allocating toll-free numbers, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Wednesday in docket 95-155. The bureau sought initial comments by April 21 and replies…
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by April 28. Somos, which used to be called 800/SMS, requested the waiver "to establish a fair system of allocating a large quantity of 800 numbers currently controlled by the Somos Help Desk," the PN said. "Somos seeks to conduct a limited release of the 800 numbers, restricting RespOrgs to 100 of these toll free numbers per day, for a period of five days. According to Somos, prior experience suggests that in the absence of an allocation system, a small number of entities will be able to reserve the majority of these numbers," it said.