National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services

NANC MeetingJuly 13, 2004

Status of Change OrdersPending. All have been reviewed by the NOWG.

• No. 24 – Recurring NPAC reports, held in abeyance pending outcome of Change Order #26 report and recommendation

• No. 25 - A request from a carrier to have the PAS generate a Part 4 report.

• No. 27 - Extending Forecast Report from 12 to 18 months

• No. 29 - INC Issue 426Auto populate Part 3 remarks with information from comments on donation form

Status of Change Orders, cont’d

No. 26 – one time NPAC report• Was approved May 3, 2004• Completed the research generated by the Change Order

#26 report and sent the results to the FCC on July 1.• One NPA out of each NPAC region • Compared PAS and NPAC information• If not identical, contacted carrier to determine which

was correct. • Not all carriers responded; we will continue outreach. • The percentage of blocks with errors ranges from 2% to

5% per NPA. Our inventory also contained 3 blocks that were more than 10% contaminated, and they had to be returned to the SP.

Pooling Administration System (PAS) –Assignment Volume

2004 Total assigned blocks in PAS2004 Total assigned blocks in PASTotal assigned blocks as of January 1, 2004 29,027

January 31 31,157 +6.9%February 29 33,402 +6.8%March 31 35,781 +6.7%April 30 38,029 +6%May 31 39,946 +4.8%June 30 42,385 +9.4%

Summary of Monthly Reports to FCC

Thousands Block Pooling Report

May, 2004 Report (data from April 1 through April 30, 2004)

June, 2004 Report (data from May 1 through May 31)

Approved

Denied Suspended

TOTAL

Quantity of Applications

4576 352 232 5160

Approved

Denied Suspended

TOTAL

Quantity of Applications

4039 297 289 4625

Summary of Reports cont’d.

System Performance ReportMay, 2004 Report (4/1/04 thru 4/30/04 data)

Percent availability: 99.94Hours/Minutes of Availability: 719 hours 32 minutesNumber of instances of unavailability: 1Time of outage: 2:43am – 3:11 am ETNo trouble tickets were filed.

June, 2004 Report (5/1 thru 5/31 data)

Percent availability: 100Hours/Minutes of Availability: 744Number of instances of unavailability: 0

Other PA Activities of Interest June 18 Declaratory Ruling from the New York Public

Service Commission re: reclamation of blocks in the 540 and 550 central office (NXX) codes.

Non-Participating Carriers Report– Ran a list from PAS– Contacted carriers (if a contact could be found) to notify

and allow them to perform any required functions (donations, forecasts, etc.).

– Re-ran the list from PAS– This final list was edited and provided to the FCC on July

6 and the states on July 7, 2004.

June was our busiest month so far

5575 applications processed.

Other PA Activities of Interest, cont’d

Met with NOWG June 30 regarding PA performance evaluation for 2003.

Received approval from the FCC for disaster recovery testing. Will take place the week of August 23rd.– Operational testing -- during business hours and will

not affect the availability of the Pooling Administration System (PAS) .

– Technical testing -- from 8pm-midnight ET on Saturday, August 28.

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