WTA Opposes Nationwide Number Portability Draft 'N-1 Query' Change; Incompas Backs FCC
Possible FCC steps to ease nationwide number portability (NNP) got some support from WTA and full support from Incompas, with a draft order on the agenda for commissioners' July 12 meeting. WTA backs giving CLEC forbearance relief "from all remaining…
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equal access and dialing parity requirements, but opposes elimination or modification of the current N-1 query requirement," which it said was working well, the RLEC group said in filings posted on meetings with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Mike O'Rielly and Brendan Carr (here, here, here), posted Thursday in docket 17-244. "The contemplated revision of the current N-1 query requirement to allow alternative voluntary arrangements is vastly preferable to outright elimination of it, but is still likely to disrupt the current established system by increasing the possibility of confusion, disputes, and dropped calls." The group's main interest remains that the FCC hold off on wireline NNP until it addresses wireless NNP and a transition to VoIP technology is further along. Incompas backed the draft, saying both actions "represent a necessary modernization of the regulatory regime and lay important groundwork for [NNP]." It "believes that the Commission’s 'middle course' for the N-1 requirement will give competitive providers the flexibility to eliminate routing inefficiencies inherent in this practice while preserving the standardization and uniformity that has contributed to successful number portability at the local level and with nationwide carriers."