FCC Tells Iconectiv to Help Inland Cellular Port Numbers as Part of Temporary Outage Fix
The FCC directed local number portability administrator iconectiv to work with Inland Cellular, a small wireless carrier in the Pacific Northwest, to allow porting across a local access and transport area (LATA) boundary until Nov. 13 while it recovers from…
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a network outage due to a power spike. Inland's "entire core network was affected, including the database that enables roaming -- the Home Location Register (HLR) -- and approximately 40,000 customers are without service," said a Wireline Bureau order in docket 95-116 and Thursday's Daily Digest. It said Inland arranged for the use of a third-party HLR to temporarily port all its subscribers’ numbers, allowing proper call routing and roaming. Inland expects it to take up to 90 days to resolve its network issue.