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Posted by Robert Bonomi on October 21, 2008, 1:11 am
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>Looking for some advice on this one, it's and oddball question to be
>sure.
>
>I have a number in TN that was ported from Bellsouth to a CLEC roughly
>3 years ago. The exchange that this number was ported from is a local
>call for subscribers of a particular ILEC in the area.
>
>For the last 3 years, subscribers of the ILEC's local service have
>been able to call the ported number without issue. Last week, they
>started getting operator errors and such. We were able to determine
>that the ILEC was now actively blocking calls to the ported number
>because they said they had been incurring charges on those calls for
>years.
>
>I'm in the middle of the complaint with the TRA, but I had a question
>that I can't seem to find the specific answer to.
I presume the "TRA" is the "Tennessee Rate Authority", or something
similar -- the state-level agency with regulatory authority over
public utilities.
Escalate directly to the FCC as well.
>If an ILEC provides local service to a particular NPA-NXX , are they
>required to provide local service to all numbers in that specific NPA-
>NXX, regardless of the destination carrier, without additional
>charges?
No, not "without additional charge." *HOWEVER* they are required deliver the
call _to_ the called number.
If the ILEC 'rate center' where the ported number is handed off to the CLEC,
is different than where the 'home' NXX is, it may be a 'local toll' call, with
additional charges payable by the calling party.
I *THINK* the CLEC has to have a POP to accept the hand-off, that is _in_
the rate center where the NXX is served, expressly to avoid the "some
numbers on that exchange are 'local', some are 'toll'" issue.
>The ILEC is taking the position that they don't have to provide the
>same service on a particular TN if it has been ported, even if they
>provide service on the remainder of the NPA-NXX.
That is true. But they _do_ have to provide service to connect their
customers to the CLEC handling it. If they rate it as a 'local' call,
then they have to eat the termination charges, if any. If they rate
it as a 'toll' call, then they can collect from their customers , _PER_
_TARIFF_, for those calls.
This is going to depend on what the 'rate and route' database says for
the termination location of -your- number, and for the rest of the exchange.
>Can anyone point me in the direction of the statues that define this
>type of thing?
Relevant stuff will be miles deep in the ILEC tariff filings, and in
FCC "rulemakings". "Title 47 CFR", somewhere.
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