Somos Urges FCC to Delete Some Numbering Rules
Somos urged the FCC in a filing posting Thursday to make changes to its numbering rules, consistent with the agency’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” proceeding. The company also has a petition before the commission asking it to alter how phone numbers are assigned and move away from its legacy systems to an IP environment (see 2601090040). The FCC shut down the North American Numbering Council last year (see 2506240074).
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The agency “can -- and should -- sunset legacy regulations that imperil the transition to all-IP networks and harm consumers,” Somos said in docket 25-133. Numerous provisions in Part 52 of FCC rules and related rules “still assign responsibilities directly to NANC,” it said. “Because the NANC no longer exists, these rules create uncertainty and do not apply as written.”