On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:45 PM Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/9/20 12:19 PM, Mary Lou Carey wrote: > > > stating you needed authority to get numbering resources from the pooling > > administration > > Am I wrong to think this is going to hit the VoIP/SIP trunking industry > like a bomb? > > While the FCC did make possible direct ownership of number resources by > VoIP companies a few years ago, as far as I know, a very small > percentage of the industry has filed for an IPES OCN. It's complicated, > getting numbers routed this way is complicated, and most SIP providers > prefer to leverage the origination footprint of their underlying > carriers/LECs, at least as far as I know. > > Even if one doesn't order any numbers, it sounds like one has to have an > IPES OCN to have a STIR/SHAKEN certificate. Isn't that going to leave > most interconnected VoIP providers scrambling to get an IPES OCN? As far > as I know, 95%+ of the industry don't have one... > > Or am I badly misinformed? > > Alex - You are correct, in fact it will be worse. Since everyone will be able to get their own numbers, a lot of carriers will. That will make porting even harder then ever it was before. You will have tens of thousands of porting departments to deal with....
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