[VoiceOps] Creation of a new rate center?

[Enzo Damato]

Hi. Thanks for this information. I'm surprised that the INC makes the 
rate centers. I thought they only created assignment guidelines for 
number blocks. Do you have any documentation from INC on how they 
establish rate centers? Even if I can't get a new one made, I would like 
to see how they made decisions about creating the ones they did decide 
to make. In the part of TX that I'm in right now, I don't think there's 
a single IELC for the whole LATA though. There are ATT, Frontier and 
independent rate centers in my LATA, all with their own tandems. I 
already have something set up for LI, and I greatly share your 
frustration in the fact that the RBOCs refuse to consider SIP 
interconnection. I do hope this changes soon.

In terms of out of the box thinking though, if you look at the NPA 
assignment guidelines, it looks like there it's possible for any company 
to request "general purpose NPA," and potentially get a new non-ERC NPA 
made for a new type of non-geographic application, providing they can 
get an industry standard definition for it. I wonder if anyone's tried 
that before?


Thank you,

Enzo Damato


On 12/5/24 10:56 AM, Mary Lou Carey wrote:
>
> Great out of the box thinking, but it doesn't work that way. Rate 
> Centers are established by the INC committee (Industry Numbering 
> Committee). While INC may consolidate several localities into one rate 
> center or break apart one rate center into several rate centers, they 
> rarely create a new rate center, and its never because someone wants 
> to avoid interconnecting with an RBOC / ILEC. Whichever carrier was 
> the original telecom provider in that LATA will always be the one that 
> you have to connect with unless the original carrier sells off those 
> areas to another carrier. Verizon selling off areas to Frontier would 
> be an example of that.
>
> The big RBOCs / ILECs refuse to interconnect with anyone via SIP even 
> though they've pretty much shut down the sale of all TDM transport 
> into their COs. (I've complained about this multiple times to the FCC 
> but they clearly don't care because they've never done anything about 
> it.)
>
> Your best bet in the meantime is to interconnect via Sinch, InfoBip, 
> Bandwidth, or Wide Voice if they cover the area. If you don't have a 
> lot of end user customers, you can order DIDs through them. If you 
> have a larger number of customers and want to get your own NXXs, you 
> can order their PSTN Connect product (Bandwidth is the only one that 
> doesn't offer it). In order to get your own NXXs, you first have to 
> get Interconnected VOIP Numbering Authorization from the FCC.
>
> MARY LOU CAREY
> BackUP Telecom Consulting
> Office: 615-791-9969
> Cell: 615-796-1111
>
>
> On 2024-12-05 09:33 AM, Enzo Damato via VoiceOps wrote:
>
>> Hello. I've been doing some research into rate centers, and thus far, 
>> I have been unable to learn how (or even if) a new rate center can be 
>> created. I've checked my state PUC's docket (TX), and I haven't been 
>> able to find anything relating to rate centers. If I could make a new 
>> rate center, it would make it significantly easier to get set up in 
>> certain area codes where no non-RBOC ILEC is available, as it would 
>> remove the requirements to interconnect over TDM with ATT. Has any 
>> other CLEC attempted this?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Enzo Damato
>>
>>
>> PS: Thanks for all the wonderful information. I've been a longtime 
>> lurker on this list, and it's been very helpful in setting up my 
>> first CLEC.
>>
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