NANC Report Numbering Oversight Working Group NOW

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NANC Report Numbering Oversight Working
Group(NOWG)

• May 17, 2005
• Co-Chairs
• Rosemary Emmer, Nextel
• Karen Riepenkroger, Sprint

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Contents

• NOWG Active Carrier Participant List
• PA Change Order Recommendation for 40, 41
• NANPA Change Order Recommendation for 5
• New PA Technical Requirements
• Status of NANPA and PA 2004 Performance Surveys
• NOWG May-June 2005 Meeting Schedule

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NOWG Active Participants

• Alltel
• ATT
• Bell South
• Cingular Wireless
• Cox Communications
• MCI
• Nextel
• Qwest
• SBC
• Sprint
• T-Mobile
• Verizon
• Verizon Wireless

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PA Change Order Recommendations

• Change Order 40 dated April 6, 2005
• Purpose To add an additional pooling
  administrator to the current staff to help manage
  the increase of applications received by the PA.
• NOWGs assessment Section 2.3 of the PA
  Technical Requirements dated November 30, 2000
  reads Pooling administration staffing shall be
  at appropriate levels to ensure that the
  contractor can efficiently perform the functions
  as identified. The NOWG believes that the
  staffing requirements should be met within the
  parameters of the current technical requirements
  under which the current contract was awarded.
• Recommendation - The NOWG recommended that this
  change order not be approved.

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PA Change Order Recommendations Continued

• Change Order 41 dated May 4, 2005
• Overview In Change Order 24 the NOWG
  recommended the PA conduct a one-time scrub of
  the PAS database using NPAC data. This lead to
  Change Order 26 in which the PA analyzed a
  sampling of one NPA in each NPAC region to
  determine the scope of the contamination issue
  with donated block(s). Note the NOWG determined
  that a one-time scrub of the PAS database was
  warranted at the time due to the proposed costs
  associated with Change Order 24. The outcome of
  these two events has lead to Change Order 41.
• Purpose of Change Order 41 To implement the
  NOWGs recommendations made to Change Order 24
  for a one-time scrub of the PAS database and
  outlines other various items the PA will do in an
  attempt to educate SPs on their responsibilities
  when donating block(s) to the pool (such as,
  adhering to the 10 contamination rule,
  completing intra-service provider ports prior to
  donation of block(s), and correctly indicating
  whether or not the block(s) are contaminated).
• The NOWG requests that the PA present the
  results of the one time scrub to the NOWG via a
  conference call using the same format as the
  sample report generated from Change Order 26.
  One year after the reconciliation, the NOWG and
  the PA will seek input from the industry as to
  any increase or decrease in the frequency in
  which SPs are encountering erroneous block
  contamination.
• It is the understanding from Change Order
  41, that the straight overtime cost is included
  in the 6,209 anticipated cost to implement the
  proposed change order.
• Recommendation - The NOWG recommended that this
  change order be approved. Due to the critical
  nature of this issue, the NOWG also recommends
  that the FCC stipulate upon approval that the PA
  initiate work within 30 days and then complete
  their tasks within 120 days or less.

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NANPA Change Order Recommendations Continued

• Change Order 5 dated April 22, 2005
• Purpose - To propose a change of scope to
  existing NANPA operations and eliminate the
  current manual process for retrieving NRUF
  Form 502 EXCEL spreadsheets from the
  cocus_at_neustar.com mailbox and parse the data.
  This change order will automate the entire
  process and change the location of the NRUF data
  (emails and spreadsheets) from the current
  location on NeuStar corporate resources to a new
  server dedicated to NRUF. There is no cost
  associated with this change order.
• Background NRUF was not included when NANPA
  rolled out the Number Administration System
  (NAS) on February 9, 2004. It was later added to
  NAS on May 24, 2004. Since then NANPA has been
  using a Microsoft Access database (tool) to
  retrieve the NRUF Form 502 EXCEL spreadsheet(s)
  from the emails sent by service providers.
• This tool ensured that the data extracted
  from the EXCEL spreadsheet(s) included both the
  data as submitted in the spreadsheet(s) by the
  service provider as well as the data calculated
  by a formula contained within the spreadsheet
  (e.g., quantity of available numbers and
  utilization). This change order will automate the
  process thereby eliminating the need of the NANPA
  staff to do this manually. It will also store
  the email(s) and data on a new server that will
  be dedicated to NRUF and remove the existing
  information from NeuStar corporate resources. 
• Recommendation - The NOWG recommends approval of
  this change order.

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New PA Technical Requirements

• Review current PA Technical Requirements for
  necessary changes Completed
• Identify sections to modify and upgrade as
  appropriate Completed
• Recommendation to the NANC/FCC for consideration
  at the March 15, 2005 meeting Completed
• Receive feedback and finalize changes to PA
  Technical Document In Progress
• NOWG to recommend new PA Technical Requirements
  Document to the NANC July, 2005 NANC meeting

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Status of NANPA and PA 2004 Performance Surveys

• NANPA and PA surveys were distributed via bulk
  e-mail by the NANPA and PA administrators as well
  as posted to each of their web sites. The NARUC
  and the INC sent notices via their distribution
  channels.  All parties sent reminder e-mails and
  the response due date was extended to March 31st.
• The NANPA operational review was held in
  Sterling, VA in March and the PA operational
  review was held in Concord, CA in April.
• The NOWG met in Denver, CO the week of May 2nd to
  compile the survey results and to begin both
  draft evaluations.
• Conference calls will continue to be held until
  the preliminary report is completed. The
  tentative date to share the preliminary report
  with the FCC, NANPA and the PA is June 22, 2005.
  
• The NOWG will deliver both final performance
  evaluations to the NANC at the July NANC meeting.
  

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NOWG May-June 2005 Meeting Schedule
Contact either of the Co-Chairs for complete
meeting or conference call details Rosemary.Emmer_at_
nextel.com or Karen.S.Riepenkroger_at_mail.sprint.com
(Other meetings for the NOWG may be scheduled as
needed beyond what has been identified in this
list) NOWG meeting notes and documents are posted
at nanc-chair.org