WTA Discusses Nationwide Number Portability with FCC

On July 3, representatives from WTA met with staff for FCC Chairman Pai and Commissioners Carr and O’Reilly to discuss nationwide number portability (NNP) and WTA’s response to the FCC’s NPRM released last year.  In the meetings, WTA reiterated that its primary concern is that the FCC address NNP in discrete steps. Specifically, WTA urged the Commission to wait to deal with NNP for wireline telephone numbers until it has implemented and gained experience with NNP for the much more personalized wireless telephone numbers and until the ongoing transition to much more NNP-friendly VoIP technology has proceeded further.

A representatives Notice of Ex Parte for the three meetings can be found here.