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Liberty Asks FCC to Act on Porting Request

Counsel for Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico and Liberty Mobile USVI urged FCC Wireline Bureau staff to approve their request for a ruling that AT&T should port to Liberty 24,000 wireless numbers assigned to 16,000 customers acquired as part of Liberty’s…

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buy of AT&T’s wireless business in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (see 2203020066). “Liberty’s requested relief is technically feasible,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 22-68: No one “cited any Commission rule or ruling, any court decision, or indeed any other material, that questioned or undermined Liberty’s explanation of how the Commission’s existing number portability rules apply to Liberty’s (unique) situation” and “the Commission has never imposed any geographic or location-based limitations on wireless-to-wireless ports or the numbers that may be ported between wireless carriers.”