[enum-wg] market potential/future for public ENUM

On 2 Jun 2011, at 15:26, Richard Shockey wrote:

> I thought the problem was the Crown Court case brought by Vodaphone
> overturning the NICC RFP

NICC only produces technical standards.  In this case a working group (of industry representatives) was formed well in advance in anticipation of the OFCOM requirement to create an LNP database.

Once OFCOM had consulted on LNP and decided it wanted to go ahead and require one, the telcos created "UK Porting" to work on the commercial requirements and to issue the RFP for an implementation.

Vodafone took OFCOM to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and won, primarily on the basis that OFCOM's cost-benefit-analysis was flawed.

The result was a new CBA, which determined that there was an economic case for LNP and direct routing on mobile networks, but not for fixed networks.

Ray