855 Allocation Questions

855 allocation questions and daily 800 limitsThe FCC sent out a request for comments last Friday, on the 855 Number Allocation. I think this was probably in response to my FCC letter from August 2nd, which explained why I thought it was essential to put an Anti-Hoarding-Cap on the volume of numbers that each resporg administrator can take per day. This would allow regular phone companies that can’t afford the ultra high speed request programs and access that the vanity number resporgs have developed.

My proposal is to limit each organization to 500 855 numbers on the first day and 1000, 855 numbers per day each day for just one week. After that companies could grab as many numbers as they want, and delaying that for one week isn’t going to kill anyone. But it is going to insure that regular customers and smaller phone companies aren’t shut out entirely of all the good numbers. This also has another very important benefit because this insures that the entire SMS system doesn’t get as overloaded at the release.

The SMS has had technical issues during previous new area code introductions because of the extreme volume of requests from every carrier at the same time. This is understandable because it doesn’t make financial sense to require the SMS800 to build the capacity to withstand a one time peak which probably won’t happen again for several years. Several recent comments and discussions this week have suggested that spreading out the rush would definitely be a benefit to the SMS as well. I’ve included these in an update to my original comments.

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