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FCC Extends CenturyLink Number-Portability Waiver for US Virgin Island Restoration Work

The FCC Wireline Bureau granted CenturyLink six-month extension of a waiver of number portability rules. "Due to the extensive damage in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) caused by Hurricane Maria," it's "in the public interest to extend the waiver to…

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allow CenturyLink additional time to restore services," said an order in docket 95-116 and Friday's Daily Digest. The bureau Sept. 21 "issued a waiver for carriers related to porting numbers to locations outside hurricane-affected rate centers in the USVI until June 20." The waiver is extended to Feb. 1. The bureau previously gave Sprint a six-month extension.