Telephone Numbering Portability

On March 11, 1997, the Commission released a First Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket No. 95-116; FCC 97-74 (Order). In that Order the Commission concludes that Query on Release (QOR) is not an acceptable long-term number portability method. Second, the Commission extends the completion deadlines in the implementation schedule for wireline carriers by three months for Phase I and by 45 days for Phase II. A summary of the Order was published in the Federal Register. In that summary, the Commission stated that the modified rules would become effective May 15, 1997. Information collections, however, which are subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), shall become effective upon approval by OMB, but no sooner than September 12, 1997. A document announcing the information collections approval by OMB will be published in the Federal Register at a later date. This document announces the effective date of the amendments to our rules for numbering that contained information collection requirements.