Toll-Free Auction Order Mirrors Draft
A final order on rules for an upcoming auction of more than 17,000 numbers in the recently opened 833 toll-free code had no major changes from the draft order circulated three weeks earlier, based on a side-by-side comparison. Commissioners approved…
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the rules 5-0 last week (see 1908010011). Only Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O’Rielly had written statements. “The 833 Auction will serve as an experiment in using competitive bidding to assign toll free numbers equitably and efficiently,” Pai said in an attachment to the docket 19-101 final order: “These procedures will promote the transparency and efficiency of the 833 Auction and reduce the potential for conflicts of interest and anticompetitive strategic behavior by participants.”