FCC suspended for 5 months and set for investigation tariff trans...
FCC suspended for 5 months and set for investigation tariff transmittals by BellSouth and Qwest to recover extraordinary costs associated with implementation of thousands-block number pooling. Commission said many costs associated with thousands-block number pooling were ordinary costs for…
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which no additional special recovery would be appropriate. WorldCom and AT&T had filed objections to 2 carriers’ tariffs and FCC said they “raise substantial questions of lawfulness” and don’t offer enough cost justification “to permit a full assessment of the reasonableness.” FCC’s number pooling order set limits on cost recovery and required that carriers consider offsetting cost savings, such as elimination of need for area code overlays or splits.