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FCC Bureau Approves Mix Networks Bid To Obtain Phone Numbers

The FCC granted a Mix Networks application to gain access to phone numbers directly from numbering administrators under the commission's new rules for interconnected VoIP providers, said a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 16-108 and listed in Tuesday's Daily…

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Digest. Vonage gained the first such grant after the FCC's 2015 VoIP direct numbering order (see 1603310050). NARUC is challenging that order in court as unlawful for not classifying interconnected VoIP providers as telecom carriers offering a telecom service (see 1604050013, 1605200002 and 1605260058).