WASHINGTON-The Montana Public Service Commission last week said that 11 rural wireline carriers could delay intermodal local number portability to no later than Jan. 1, 2006, and Western Wireless Corp. must reimburse them for terminating calls to their customers until Western Wireless can reach...
WASHINGTON-More than 300,000 customers have cut the cord since May with more than a half a million customers switching totally to wireless since local number portability became available last November, according to numbers made available by the Federal Communications Commission.The total number for mobile-to-mobile...
WASHINGTON-At least one member of the California Public Utilities Commission is still resisting efforts to split the Beverly Hills area code even as the Federal Communications Commission is auditing T-Mobile USA Inc.'s use of numbers there."The CPUC has requested that a `for cause' audit...
WASHINGTON-At least one member of the California Public Utilities Commission is still resisting efforts to split the Beverly Hills area code even as the Federal Communications Commission is auditing T-Mobile USA Inc.'s use of numbers there."The CPUC has requested that a `for cause' audit...
Following on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the agency outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it has taken to fix...
Following up on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the government agency yesterday outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it has...
After more than two weeks of availability, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. led its nationwide competition in local number portability customer complaints, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission this week, with the carrier garnering more than half of the 600 complaints...
WASHINGTON-With the onset of local number portability and resulting potential increase in cord cutting, wireless subscribers and their carriers need to be aware that they might experience something they are not used to-telemarketing and spam on their wireless lines. They can rest assured that...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Monday told telemarketers that they must make arrangements to obtain mobile-phone numbers because it is illegal to use autodialers to call wireless phones."A telemarketer may make appropriate arrangements with a user to obtain the data in a manner that best...
Twelve of the nation's top wireless carriers have joined forces to launch a common short codes, a service that will be commercially available next week. The program will allow TV stations, movie studios and virtually any other business to purchase a five-digit text messaging...
WASHINGTON-The North American Numbering Plan Billing and Collection Inc. has officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to justify bills for work done by an independent contractor."To the best of NBANC's knowledge, no public notice or order discussing the standards for retention of a consultant...
There are a lot of ways to get in touch with Patrik Falstrom.He's got telephone, mobile phone, fax machine, e-mail and snail mail addresses. It's quite a lot of numbers, and it can take quite a while to hit the right one. Right now...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is questioning whether the nearly half-million dollars it has paid to a nonprofit consultant to the government on numbering issues is kosher.The Federal Communications Commission is using consulting agency Mitre Corp. to assist it with number pooling issues. To date, Mitre...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission considers proposals to select a nationwide number-pooling administrator, two leading contenders are duking it out at the state level in winning pooling contracts.Number pooling allows telephone numbers to be assigned in thousands-blocks rather than the 10,000-block basis established when...
WASHINGTON-If nothing is done to try to conserve telephone numbers, North America will run out of area codes and later phone numbers sometime between 2012 and 2019.NeuStar Inc. told the North American Numbering Council last week that given the current assumed demand for numbers,...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers were largely exempted, for now, from rules adopted last Friday by the Federal Communications Commission to establish thousand-number block pooling in an effort to reduce the ever-increasing need for new area codes.Thousand-number block pooling would change the way numbers are allocated and...
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced legislation to remove the spectrum cap for third-generation wireless spectrum to be assigned by auction after Dec. 31. "The Third-Generation Wireless Internet" is not as far reaching as the spectrum cap repeal initiative Brownback planned to sponsor in July,...
WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its intended takeover of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Communications Industry Services business.CIS Acquisition Corp. will now...
