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The Cal. PUC directed all wireline and wireless carriers in the B...

The Cal. PUC directed all wireline and wireless carriers in the Beverly Hills 310 and San Bernardino 909 area codes to surrender phone number blocks beyond those needed for their 6-month inventory, to maintain their service footprint, or for…

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911 and other special local routing purposes. The PUC (Case R 95-04-043) said surplus blocks that are less than 25% used must be returned to the number pool by Aug. 15. The PUC said carriers who can prove the return order will leave them with less than a 6-month supply of numbers can request an exemption. In a related case (I-95-04-044), PUC also called for comments by July 30 on whether it needs to promulgate number inventory guidelines for determining a 6-month number supply.