WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed Thursday morning to reduce the time it takes to port from wireline service to wireless from four days to just more than two days-from 96 hours to 53 hours.
The proposal seeks comment on a report submitted by the North American Numbering Council, an FCC advisory committee made up of representatives of all sectors of the telecommunications industry.
Wireless local number portability is generally completed within hours while the standard for wireline porting is four days. Customers wishing to cut the cord are currently subject to the four-day standard.
The FCC is concerned that reducing the porting time could be a burden on rural wireline carriers so it is seeking more information on the impact on these carriers, many of which only started receiving porting requests with the recent implementation of wireless LNP.
