WTA Files Comments on Nationwide Number Portability

In its comments, WTA reiterated its proposal that the FCC “start with the wireless sector that has developed effective location tracking processes and that already uses telephone numbers that have become increasingly personal and non-geographic in nature.”  WTA also “recommended that the Commission take more time to address wireline NNP until after it deals with the foreseen and unforeseen problems of implementing NNP for wireless services and gives the ongoing transition from TDM voice services to VoIP services more time to proceed further…WTA remains skeptical whether NNP for wireline telephone numbers has sufficient consumer demand and service advantages to justify its costs and disruptions” for small, rural providers.