Technologie i telekomunikacja · 17.04.1995

Proposed 708 Relief Plan and 630 Numbering Plan Area Code by AmeritechIllinois

This Declaratory Ruling and Order (Order) responds to a Request for Declaratory Ruling and Order (Petition) filed with the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) on August 4, 1994, jointly by Mobilemedia Communications, Inc., Paging Network, Inc., and Page Mart, Inc. (Petitioners). Petitioners objected to a plan developed by Ameritech-Illinois (Ameritech) to relieve an anticipated telephone number shortage in the part of Illinois covered by numbering plan area 708. Petitioners contended portions of the Ameritech plan violate the Communications Act and industry guidelines. In the Order, the Commission found the Ameritech plan was unreasonably discriminatory and otherwise unjust and unreasonable in violation of the Communications Act. In the Order, the Commission declared the importance of modernization of telecommunications infrastructure, the introduction of new technologies, the promotion of competition, and the encouragement of new interstate and international services to meeting its goals under the Communications Act.