North American Numbering Council

Billing & Collection Working Group

(B&C WG)

February 13, 2007

Co-Chairs:

Rosemary Emmer, Sprint NextelTim Decker, Verizon

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Mission Statement / Area of Responsibility

• The NANC’s Billing and Collection Agent Oversight Working Group (B&C WG) is responsible for overseeing the performance of the functional requirements provided by the NANP Billing and Collection Agent (B&C Agent).

• The B&C WG will investigate/review the performance of the B&C Agent and submit reports at each NANC meeting to fully inform NANC of the B&C Agent’s performance with respect to the functional requirements.

• At the request of the FCC and/or NANC, the B&C WG will identify and determine the financial impact, feasibility and/or the appropriateness of initiatives/activities that may need to be included in the budget or use these Funds.

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Current Activities

• 2005/2006 Welch & Co. Performance Review

• Budget for period July 2006 – June 2007

• Contribution Factor for period July 2006 – June 2007

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2005/2006 Welch & Co. Performance Review

• Developed a rating schematic similar to the NOWG for consistency.

• Developed the evaluation consistent with the monthly deliverable matrix.

• Scheduled conference calls to gain industry consensus on rating and evaluation.

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Budget for period July 2006 – June 2007

• Working with the proposed budget created by Welch & Co. to arrive at a reasonable Budget and Fund Size in order to ensure sufficient funds are available for anticipated disbursements.

• The current proposed total projected cost for the NANP fund is $7,430,374, with a $1M contingency provision built in.

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Proposed Contribution Factor for period July 2006 – June 2007

The B&C WG is responsible for the review and ultimately the approval

process for the formula and calculation of the contribution factor. Option 1 is designed to exhaust the entire anticipated fund surplus. (June 30, 2007 of $1,576,965) The US carriers would be required to fund $5,768,538 with a funding factor of 0.0000246. This option leaves only the $1,000,000 in the surplus account which is the contingency provision.Option 2 is designed to arrive at a contribution factor of exactly 0.0000250 as projected two years ago. This scenario reduces the surplus by $1,481,955 and the total contribution by the US carriers would be $5,863,549. There would be $95,010 excess surplus that could be carried forward to subsidize contributions in the future.Option 3 is calculated not to use any of the surplus of $1,576,965. The surplus could be used in future years. The projected costs would be fully funded by contributions during the current year. This would result in a contribution factor of 0.0000313.

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B&C WG Membership

• AT&T• Bell South• Bell Canada• Cox• CTIA• Sprint Nextel• Qwest• Verizon

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Future Meetings

Contact the Co-Chairs for complete meeting or conference call details

Rosemary.Emmer@sprint.com or timothy.decker@verizon.com

(Other meetings for the B&C WG may be scheduled as needed

beyond what has been identified above)

B&C WG meeting notes and documents are posted at nanc-chair.org

Meeting Date Proposed AgendaTuesday, March 6

11:00am Eastern 1hr

Contribution Factor, February Deliverable, Performance Review

Tuesday, March 20

11:00am Eastern 1hr

Contribution Factor, Performance Review

Tuesday, March 27

11:00am Eastern 1hr

Contribution Factor, Performance Review

Tuesday, April 10

11:00am Eastern 1hr

Finalize Contribution Factor, NANC Report,

March Deliverable, Discuss Filings and CF timeline

Tuesday, April 24

11:00am Eastern 1hr

Placeholder for call to discuss Contribution Factor and associated timeline