Two US Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation that would set minimum performance standards for transferring phone numbers from one service provider to another. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) is cosponsoring the bill. The move seeks to create the means where the FCC can extend existing wireless number portability to include landlines.



The wireline telephone sector complained the Stevens-Inouye bill is overly burdensome on landline carriers. CTIA said the current system stifles competition. Wireless-to-wireless porting typically takes only hours while the wireline-to-wireless process can take days, in part because landline carriers require more data to transfer a subscriber’s telephone number to a mobile phone operator.

Guttman-McCabe want the FCC to intervene, given the inability of the North American Numbering Council and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions to arrive at a consensus on porting validation issues during the past three years.

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