Cincinnati Bell wants to discontinue its Primary Rate Interface service and Plain Old Telephone Service provided over Cisco 5400 equipment network connectivity by Jan. 31, the FCC said Tuesday. Cincinnati Bell said its PRI service has fewer than five customers, and only a “small number” of its POTS subscribers would be affected by discontinuing the Cisco 5400 connectivity. Cincinnati Bell notified affected customers in late November; those customers have the opportunity to subscribe to similar services from Cincinnati Bell or change providers, the FCC said. The commission is seeking comment on Cincinnati Bell’s proposal through Jan. 15.

Level 3 submitted its final report on its trial of direct access to numbers Monday (http://bit.ly/1cjwOtM). It handled nearly 23,000 port-in requests, and 21 port-out requests, all of which were successful. Level 3 had zero routing failures, billing or compensation disputes, it said. “Level 3 was disappointed but not surprised that the major incumbent LECs and wireless carriers with which it sought to establish IP interconnection were unable or unwilling to support IP interconnection for purposes of the trial, even though IP interconnection among competitive carriers is commonplace,” it said.