Federal Communications Commission Grants Limited Waiver to Vonage and TeleCommunication Systems for Access to Numbering Resources

Summary

The Federal Communications Commission has established a limited technical trial to test whether granting direct access to numbers for interconnected VoIP providers will raise issues related to number exhaust, porting, interconnection, and intercarrier compensation. The trial aims to improve the Commission's ability to adopt well-crafted rules and also grants a narrow waiver to TeleCommunication Systems for direct access to pseudo Automatic Number Identification codes for 911 and Enhanced 911 service.