Comments Due June 7 on NANC Reports on Number Portability and Suicide Hotline
Comments are due June 7 on two North American Numbering Council reports, said the FCC Wireline Bureau Friday. Comments on new findings related to nationwide number portability are due in docket 17-244, said one public notice. NANC delivered the NNP…
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report May 13 in a letter from NANC Chairman Travis Kavulla. He said that an NNP Working Group narrowed its recommendations to two options, a national local routing number or an Internet Protocol routing number, and the choice “depends on the trajectory of technological change in the industry.” NANC’s NNP report didn't include a cost-benefit analysis, Kavulla adds, because doing so would require assumptions about the pace of stakeholders' technology upgrades. Docket 18-336 is for a report, also issued May 13, updating the FCC on recommendations for implementing 2018's National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act. The law looks to designate a 3-digit dialing code for national use. There's no consensus on what that number should be (see 1905160054).