NARUC Meets With FCC Staff on NumberBarn Concerns
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners spoke with FCC staff about the group's opposition to a NumberBarn application for authorization to obtain numbering resources (see 2412090055). Association representatives met with an aide to Commissioner Olivia Trusty, Wireline Bureau Chief Joseph Calascione and other bureau staff, said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 19-99.
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A few issues are “obvious,” NARUC said. “The expansion (and inherent [obfuscation]) of the primary, secondary and tertiary wholesale numbers markets reduces transparency about use -- and both undermines conservation efforts and facilitates robocalling.” Telephone number wholesalers “are knowingly or unknowingly assisting companies that engage in number rotation schemes by selling large quantities of numbers to providers that may or may not have direct access to numbering resources in their own right.”