Subject: [NEXTEL-1] FCC's LNP 'Clarification' Rattles Telcos, Maybe Congress

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:42:36 -0500

FCC's LNP 'Clarification' Rattles Telcos, Maybe Congress
November 10, 2003

The FCC may very well have overstepped itself this week when it issued an order - more of a clarification actually - "reaffirming" an earlier order requiring wireless carriers to implement local number portability (LNP)
by Nov. 24. In clarifying its LNP policy, the commission said wireline carriers must also be prepared to port numbers to wireless carriers by the Nov.  24 deadline, just as wireless carriers must be able to port numbers to wireline carriers.
This latest development - one that appears to have caught telcos largely off guard - may be enough to sway some fence-sitting members of Congress, moving them to support a wireless industry request to delay the Nov. 24 deadline.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is known to have once supported such a delay. However, he backed away from that position under pressure from consumer advocacy groups and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).
Given this latest turn of events, Stevens' former position on the deadline delay may be resurrected and strengthened by other members of the Senate who see the FCC's eleventh hour decision to expand the LNP order to include wireline-to-wireless portability as an unreasonable use of agency's regulatory muscle.

http://www.wirelesstoday.com/news/1068507989.htm

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