Numbering Optimization and IPEnabled Services

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Numbering Optimization and IP-Enabled Services

• The VON Coalition
• Todd D. Daubert
• FCC Numbering SymposiumNovember 2004

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Telephone Numbers are the Means By Which
Consumers Access Services via the PSTN

• Consumers have always used telephone numbers to
  access both telecommunications and information
  services via the Public Switched
  Telecommunications Network
• Local and Long Distance Voice Services
• Fax Services
• Voicemail Services
• Weather, Sports and Information Services
• Dial-up Internet Access
• Consumers should continue to be able to use
  telephone numbers to access all types of
  services, including IP-Enabled Services
• The FCC should ensure that telephone numbers are
  available on a timely, non-discriminatory basis,
  to all service providers.

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Numbers are the Fuel of Competition

• The FCC has ruled that under no circumstances
  should consumers be precluded from receiving
  telecommunications services of their choice from
  providers of their choice for want of numbering
  resources. For consumers to benefit from the
  competition envisioned by the Telecommunications
  Act of 1996, it is imperative that competitors in
  the telecommunications marketplace face as few
  barriers to entry as possible. California PUC
  Petition for Delegation of Additional Authority
  Pertaining to Area Code Relief and NXX Code
  Conservation Measures, 14 FCC 17486 (1999).
• The same reasoning applies to the IP-enabled
  services marketplace.

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Telephone Numbers Must Be Used As Efficiently As
Possible

• The FCCs optimization measures should continue
  to apply to all numbering resources regardless of
  the type of service consumers use the number to
  access.
• The best way to optimize numbering utilization is
  to ensure that any single number can be used to
  access the maximum type of services possible
  (e.g., wireline, wireless, IP-enabled,
  telecommunications, information) across the
  greatest geographic area possible (e.g., overlays
  are preferable to area code splits).
• Reduces the chances that numbering resources will
  be stranded due to changes in the marketplace
• Ensures that numbering resources can be allocated
  where needed
• The inherent mobility of IP-enabled services
  should not preclude consumers from using
  geographic telephone numbers to access them.

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For Questions Relating To This Presentation,
Please Contact

• Todd D. Daubert
• Kelley Drye Warren LLP
• 1200 19th Street, N.W., Suite 500
• Washington, D.C. 20036
• [phone]
• tdaubert_at_kelleydrye.com

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VON Coalition Members