UScellular Gets Limited Waiver of FCC Numbering Rules
The Wireline Bureau approved a limited, temporary waiver of service authorization requirements in FCC numbering rules sought by UScellular. The carrier said the waiver is needed to provide mobile data services to some 50,000 fleet devices through Aeris, an IoT…
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mobile virtual network operator. UScellular “seeks to maintain service to this limited number of IoT devices for a limited time by becoming the temporary assignee of the numbers that Aeris currently uses to provide service,” said an order in Thursday’s Daily Digest. The carrier “has committed to return the numbering resources” to the North American numbering plan administrator “no later than 24 months after any waiver is granted, and we condition our grant on US Cellular’s compliance with this commitment (and, as possible, returning individual blocks of numbers prior to such date as they are no longer in service),” the bureau said.