National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services

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National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services

• NANC Meeting
• March 15, 2005

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Status of Change Orders

• Change Orders Approved by FCC 1/2005
• No. 27 - Extending Forecast Report from 12 to 18
  months
• No. 31 Expand Query Options for Donation Report
• No. 32 Modify Process for Deleting PAS work
  items
• No. 33 Modify Search/Forms View Query
• No. 35 Red Light Rule Interim Manual Process
• No. 36 Red Light Rule System Modification
• All improvements are scheduled to be available on
  April 4.
• Withdrawn and will be resubmitted
• No. 24 LNPA WG PIM 24/INC CO/NXX Issue 364
  Recurring NPAC reports.

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Status of Change Orders, cont.

• New
• No. 38 1Q2005 PAS Users Proposed Enhancements
  to the PAS.
• NOWG recommended approval of all seven
  suggestions.
• Suggestion 1 PAS users should have the option
  of having Part 3s, Part 4 reminders notices, etc.
  sent to an additional designated person or
  persons besides the user.
• Suggestion 2 Enhance the existing query
  capabilities for the block report by allowing
  users to query at the rate center level in
  addition to the state and NPA.
•  Suggestion 3 Allow users to request through
  the PAS that the system generate a new password
  for them, so they do not have to be dependent
  upon the Number Pooling Customer Support to reset
  the password.

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Status of Change Orders, cont.

• New, cont.
• No. 38 1Q2005 PAS Users Proposed Enhancements,
  cont.
• Suggestion 4 Have the existing e-mail
  notification for processing a block donation show
  the disposition of the block donation, to
  eliminate the additional step for the SP of
  locating the disposition of the block donation
  within the users work items in PAS.
•  Suggestion 5 The user should have the ability
  to specify a different effective date for each
  thousand-block when requesting multiple
  thousands-blocks on one application.
•  Suggestion 6 A disclaimer should be added to
  the Part 1A, explaining that even though a block
  may be available at the time of application, it
  may not be available at the time the PA processes
  the request.
•  Suggestion 7 Have the PAS notify the user via
  an e-mail of the pending password de-activation
  date when a user has a period of inactivity in
  PAS that reaches 120 calendar days.
• No. 39 Thousands Block Part 4 Report (combines
  previous Change Orders 25 and 34). NOWG
  recommended approval.

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PAS Assignment Volume

• 2005 Total Assigned Blocks in PAS
• Total assigned blocks as of December 31, 2004
  61,118

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PAS Assignment Volume

• 2004 Total assigned blocks in PAS
• Total assigned blocks as of January 1, 2004
  29,027
• January 31 31,157 7.3
• February 29 33,402 7.2
• March 31 35,781 7.1
• April 30 38,029 6.2
• May 31 39,946 5
• June 30 42,385 6.1
• July 31 44,726 5.5
• August 31 47,566 6.3
• September 30 50,079 5
• October 31 53,882 7.6
• November 30 56,991 5.8
• December 31 61,118 7.2
• Increase from Jan 1 through Dec 31 111

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Summary of Monthly Reports to FCC

• Thousands Block Pooling Report
• January, 2005 Report (data from December 1
  through December 31, 2004)
• February, 2005 Report (data from January 1
  through January 31)

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Summary of Reports, contd.

• System Performance Report
• January, 2005 Report (data from December1 through
  December31, 2004)
• Percent availability 99.9
• Hours/Minutes of Availability 743 hours 28
  minutes
• Number of instances of unavailability 1
• February, 2005 Report (data from January 1
  through January31)
• Percent availability 100
• Hours/Minutes of Availability 744
• Number of instances of unavailability 0

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Other PA Activities of Interest

• Non-Participating Carriers Report
• New report sent to the FCC January 25 and
  affected state regulatory agencies January 26.
• Timing before NRUF and Pooling Forecast deadlines
  well-received permitted non-compliant service
  providers the opportunity to tackle all issues at
  one time.
• List of possible reclaimable codes (we were
  unable to contact or get any information on the
  code holder) sent to NANPA for review.
• Pool Replenishment
• Since January 1, we have had to open 230 whole
  NXX codes to replenish pools to satisfy SP
  requests.
• NOWG PA Survey
• Posted to the PA website January 24 and separate
  email with instructions to state regulatory
  distribution list.
• Reminder sent to PAS and state regulatory
  distribution list February 28.