FCC Rejects Delay Request for LNP

The FCC denied a petition from United States Telecom Association (USTA) and CenturyTel to delay the implementation of local number portability rules due to take effect next week. The new rules require that wireline carriers must port numbers to wireless carriers where the requesting wireless carrier’s coverage area overlaps the geographic location of the rate center in which the customer’s wireline number is provisioned, provided that the porting-in carrier maintains the number’s original rate center designation following the port.
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