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Extending robocall-related certification obligations to all providers and resellers is debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should extend robocall-related certification obligations to all providers and resellers.”
28 filers engaged this issue.
- Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solut (oppose) — ATIS and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions oppose extending robocall-related certification obligations to all providers and resellers, arguing that existing Commission mechanisms already provide sufficient information and that imposing additional obligations would create unnecessary overlap with limited incremental benefit.
- Numeracle (support) — Numeracle supports the proposal, emphasizing the need to address the current asymmetry in robocall certifications among different providers, and urges the Commission to implement annual re-certification for compliance verification, require due diligence before assigning numbers to resellers, and advance entity-level verification to enhance trust and accountability in the telecommunications system.
- Tammy Glover Fowler (mixed) — CCC supports excluding Video Relay Service (VRS) and Internet Protocol Relay Service (IP Relay) providers from expanded certification and reporting obligations due to the lack of a resale-driven visibility gap, while also advocating for extending robocall-related certification obligations to resellers of telephone numbers to enhance transparency and compliance, as well as supporting the extension of other certifications including foreign-ownership and truthful certification under penalty of perjury.
- 448 Consulting (modify) — The commenter generally supports the Commission's proposal to extend robocall mitigation certification requirements to resellers of telephone numbers, emphasizing that the robocall mitigation plan requirements should account for differences in scale among providers, and advocates for a definition of an end user that focuses on the party originating or terminating calls to maintain enforcement clarity.
- Responsible Enterprises Against Consumer Haras (mixed) — R.E.A.C.H. supports proposals for requiring disclosure of resellers by wholesalers to enhance transparency and aid robocall enforcement, but warns that making numbering service providers liable for end user use is anti-competitive; additionally, R.E.A.C.H. stresses the importance of a ruling on its petition before any restrictions on number rotation by American businesses.
- CTIA (mixed) — The commenter supports broader certifications and disclosures to enhance consumer protection against illegal robocalls, advocates for increased state enforcement as the most effective strategy, opposes additional state authority regarding numbering, and calls for an evaluation of proposed numbering rule changes based on their effectiveness and cost justification.
The proposal to restrict the resale of numbers beyond a single level is debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should mandate a single-level restriction on the resale of numbering resources.”
23 filers engaged this issue.
- Tata Communications America (oppose) — Tata Communications America Inc. argues that the proposed restriction limiting the resale of numbering resources to a single level is unlikely to effectively address illegal robocalling, imposes significant costs on legitimate providers and their customers, presents practical enforcement challenges, and may conflict with existing statutory obligations.
- BCM One (oppose) — The commenter argues that a single-level resale restriction would fail to meet the Commission's goals and could exacerbate issues by pushing illegal activities offshore, while suggesting that a registered-resale-relationship framework would better address concerns of visibility, traceback, and accountability without incurring significant costs or disruptions. Additionally, if any restrictions on suballocation are deemed necessary, the commenter advocates for grandfathering existing customer arrangements to maintain competitive practices and protect lawful businesses.
- Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solut (oppose) — ATIS INC and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions oppose the prohibition of reselling numbers beyond a single level, arguing that such a restriction would reduce competition, increase costs, and disrupt providers serving niche or specialized markets.
- USTelecom - The Broadband Association (oppose) — The Commission should generally continue to find that limiting resale to a single level would be anticompetitive and contrary to the intent of the Act, as it would also force some large providers to reevaluate their business plans with significant impacts.
- RingBoost (oppose) — RingBoost strongly opposes the proposal to restrict the resale of numbers beyond a 'single level' and to prohibit wholesale numbering arrangements, arguing that it would lead to higher costs and fewer alternatives for consumers, impose a permanent ban on vanity numbers from non-carrier providers, threaten the viability of small entities like itself, and that the IRFA inadequately considers the negative impact on small businesses.
- Responsible Enterprises Against Consumer Haras (oppose) — The proposal to collapse number availability to a single level of resell would massively limit the availability of numbering resources to legitimate American businesses and particularly harm CPaaS companies that rely on easy access to these resources.
Whether state commissions should have authority to direct NANPA to deny numbering resources is contested.
Filers split on: “The Commission should permit state commissions to direct NANPA to deny numbering resources.”
17 filers engaged this issue.
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Com (modify) — The commenter advocates for the FCC to establish a threshold for aging numbers that would prompt investigations, implement a rule against the sale of numbering resources due to violations of Commission guidance, and clarify that State Commissions can instruct NANPA to withhold numbering resources from service providers that breach numbering reporting and robocalling regulations.
- Public Service Commission of the District of C (support) — The State Commissions advocate for amendments to the FCC's numbering resource requirements, including advance notice for better state administration, a mandate for all resellers to complete the process, and the ability for state commissions to direct NANPA to deny requests from non-compliant providers. They also call for a prohibition on the sale of numbering resources to prevent inefficient market use and support withholding resources from violators of state laws.
- USTelecom - The Broadband Association (oppose) — The commenter advocates for the FCC to collaborate with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions Industry Numbering Committee to modify FCC Form 502 and develop a chain of custody for numbering resources, while also emphasizing the need for the Commission to maintain primary jurisdiction over numbering to prevent inconsistent state regulation that could hinder competition; additionally, they suggest referring NPAC proposals to the Number Portability Industry Forum to explore alternatives that align with the Commission's objectives and recognize existing use cases.
- ADEM ALJANIN (modify) — The commenter advocates for mandatory population of the AltSPID and LastAltSPID fields in the NPAC for all telephone numbers and thousands-block pool records with reseller relationships, supports state commissions having access to disaggregated NRUF data under confidentiality protections, and suggests that while state commissions may direct NANPA to deny new numbering resources to providers violating NRUF rules, this authority should not apply to resellers without NRUF obligations.
- Michigan Public Service Commission (support) — The MPSC advocates for the protection of numbering resources as a public asset by requesting a rule against their sale or hoarding, supports cross-jurisdictional access to NRUF data under consistent confidentiality standards to enhance the regulatory landscape, and calls for increased authority for state commissions to manage access to these resources due to current limitations in FCC rules.
- Twilio (oppose) — The commenter argues that the Commission should prioritize practical utility and minimize compliance burdens when modifying Numbering Resource Utilization/Forecast reporting requirements, and suggests that current targeted mitigation efforts should be allowed to fully take effect before any significant changes to established numbering processes are considered.
The expansion and modification of NRUF reporting requirements are debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should expand NRUF reporting requirements to include more detailed data.”
17 filers engaged this issue.
- NCTA - The Internet Television Association (oppose) — The commenter argues that the Commission should not adopt its proposals, as making NPAC report fields mandatory would be ineffective due to incomplete data, and suggests convening an industry working group to explore better tools for actionable information on the secondary market for telephone numbers. Additionally, they believe that transforming NRUF reporting to detect abusive calling practices would result in duplicative and unreliable data, failing to effectively identify bad actors.
- Public Service Commission of the District of C (support) — The State Commissions advocate for the FCC to mandate the identification of multiple regulatory contacts in the NRUF report to facilitate the tracking of numbering resource resale, and they also recommend that service providers with high levels of aging numbers in a thousands block (ten percent or more) be required to provide explanations, as this may reflect inefficient use of resources or illegal robocalling.
- Voice on the Net Coalition (modify) — VON supports the Commission’s proposal to create more visibility and accountability in the number resale market but suggests that expanding NRUF reporting would be excessively burdensome and disproportionate to its likely benefits, recommending instead that the Commission require all resellers of telephone numbers to maintain a list of the resellers to whom they provide telephone numbers.
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Com (support) — The commenter advocates for the FCC to enhance NRUF reporting by requiring service providers to classify telephone numbers by usage, include multiple regulatory contacts to prevent delays, and provide explanations for unusually large number blocks categorized as Aging, along with a trigger for investigations.
- ADEM ALJANIN (modify) — The commenter supports these objectives but urges the Commission to maintain NRUF obligations at the provider-of-record and to avoid imposing separate NRUF reporting obligations on downstream resellers.
- Michigan Public Service Commission (support) — The MPSC supports the NPRM’s proposal to require all resellers to complete NRUF forms, as this would allow regulators to more easily identify inconsistencies in reporting and enable greater enforcement where warranted.
The regulation of number cycling practices and its implications are debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should adopt rules to regulate number cycling practices.”
11 filers engaged this issue.
- ACA International (oppose) — ACA respectfully recommends that the Commission take action to directly address the causes underlying legitimate companies’ use of number rotation, as number cycling reflects an effort to mitigate the erroneous blocking and mislabeling of lawful, consented-to calls.
- ADEM ALJANIN (support) — The commenter supports the adoption of the short-tenure number cycling velocity rule as the primary enforcement tool against robocall abuse, arguing that it effectively meets the Commission's enforcement objectives at the individual end-user sub-account level while preserving competitive market integrity.
- Voice on the Net Coalition (modify) — VON urges the Commission to give substantial weight to legitimate use cases before adopting any prohibition or restriction on number cycling, as enhanced know-your-customer requirements would effectively target the specific risk of number cycling by bad actors without impacting legitimate users.
- Telnyx (oppose) — The commenter argues that restricting cycling without first addressing the labeling and blocking practices that created the demand for it would merely punish a symptom while protecting its cause, emphasizing that the appropriate intervention should occur at the analytics layer rather than the calling-party layer.
- American Bankers Association (support) — The American Bankers Association urges the Commission to restrict number cycling, as it impedes efforts to identify the entity responsible for illegal calls when a criminal obtains a large quantity of phone numbers.
- Pinger (modify) — The commenter argues that any rule addressing number cycling should specifically exclude the ordinary reassignment of relinquished consumer numbers to avoid burdening consumers, and urges the Commission not to implement rules that would affect single-account consumer retail provisioning.
The creation of additional tracking subcategories for intermediate-number reporting is debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should permit the creation of additional tracking subcategories for intermediate-number reporting.”
5 filers engaged this issue.
- Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solut (oppose) — ATIS opposes the creation of additional tracking subcategories for intermediate-number reporting, arguing that it would complicate the process for service providers and is unnecessary since they already track number utilization; furthermore, ATIS INC believes that multiple intermediate number definitions would be confusing and disagrees with the notion that creating three subcategories would reduce confusion in NRUF reporting.
- Michigan Public Service Commission (support) — The MPSC supports the proposal to gain more insight into the use of numbers within the intermediate category and advocates for splitting this category into three subcategories to enhance understanding of number usage, which could improve forecasting accuracy and prevent unnecessary area code exhaust.
- Tammy Glover Fowler (support) — CCC agrees that the Commission should create the three proposed subcategories - intermediate assigned, intermediate other, and intermediate available, as the single intermediate category is no longer adequate to describe how numbers actually move through reseller relationships today.
- TelSwitch (support) — TelSwitch supports the Commission's effort to strengthen numbering policies and believes the proposal to subdivide the existing 'intermediate' category into three distinct subcategories is workable, as it restores meaningful visibility into the flow of numbering resources.
- Bandwidth (modify) — The Commission should engage further with the NANC to gain consensus on the definition of an 'intermediate provider' and how the reporting framework should reflect that distinction before adopting the proposed three-subcategory approach.
Incorporating due process protections in rulemaking to prevent penalties based on inaccurate data is debated.
Filers split on: “The Commission should mandate due process protections in rulemaking to prevent penalties based on inaccurate data.”
4 filers engaged this issue.
- Online Lenders Alliance (support) — Any rulemaking arising from the NPRM should incorporate meaningful due process protections to prevent lawful entities from being penalized based on inaccurate or insufficient information, as the blocking of telephone traffic can have substantial commercial and reputational consequences.
- Telnyx (support) — The labeling layer operates as a closed loop, and calls that are blocked or mislabeled cannot be remediated through the Commission’s existing redress framework.
- Tata Communications America (oppose) — The Commission has not satisfied its obligation to weigh the costs of the proposed restriction against its speculative benefits, and the current record does not reflect that it has done so.
- Bandwidth (support) — Withholding requires an adjudicated predicate and basic process, and traceback volume alone must not be a basis to withhold resources.
Who filed (37)
448 Consulting, ACA International, ADEM ALJANIN, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solut, American Bankers Association, BCM One, Baltimore-Washington Telephone Company, Bandwidth, CTIA, Convoso, FracTEL, Hamilton Relay, INCOMPAS, Inteliquent, Justin Sprouse, Lumen, Michigan Public Service Commission, NCTA - The Internet Television Association, National Association of Regulatory Utility Com, Numeracle, Online Lenders Alliance, Pinger, Public Service Commission of the District of C, Responsible Enterprises Against Consumer Haras, RingBoost, Somos, Sytel Limited, Tammy Glover Fowler, Tata Communications America, TelSwitch, Telnyx, Twilio, USTelecom - The Broadband Association, Voice on the Net Coalition, William H. Dudley, ZipDX, iconectiv
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