# Presentation: 139310

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**FCC Numbering Symposium**
**State of the NANP **
**Presented by the **
**North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) **
**and the **
**National Pooling Administrator (PA)**
**John Manning – Amy Putnam**
**November 4, 2004**

## Outline

- NANP Past and Present
- Review of NPA/CO code assignment history
- NANP Resource Administration
- Number assignment policies and practices
- 1K block pooling implementation
- Looking Forward at NANP Exhaust
- Drivers of NANP exhaust

## NANP in 2000

- Area Code Exhaust
- 25 new NPAs assigned
- 14 NPAs placed into service
- 68 NPAs in jeopardy of exhaust
- 37 new NPA relief projects implemented by NANPA
- Central Office Code Assignments
- Total of 15,400 central office code assigned
- Average of 1,280 codes assigned per month
- NANP Exhaust
- Projected as soon as 2012 or with the implementation of national number pooling 2015 – 2025

## NANP in 2000 (cont)

- FCC Number Resource Optimization Efforts Initiated
- Number optimization requirements
- Requirements for resource assignment
- Proof of authority and network readiness for initial resources
- Month-to-Exhaust criteria and utilization thresholds
- NRUF on file
- Individual number administration requirements
- Semi-annual reporting of utilization and forecast data (NRUF)
- Scheduled rollout of mandatory 1K block pooling
- New reclamation process
- State role in assignment process
- Safety valve process, access to CO code application/information

## NANP in 2002

- Area Code Exhaust
- 3 new NPAs assigned
- 9 NPAs placed into service
- 41 NPAs in jeopardy of exhaust
- 2 new NPA relief projects implemented by NANPA
- Central Office Code Assignments
- Total of 7,200 central office code assigned
- Average of 600 codes assigned per month
- NANP Exhaust
- Projected 2031 - 2035

## NANP in 2004

- Area Code Exhaust
- 4 new NPAs assigned over last two years; one NPA returned
- 1 NPA placed into service
- Fewer than 40 NPAs in jeopardy of exhaust
- Only 1 new NPA relief project implemented by NANPA in two years
- Central Office Code Assignments
- Yearly assignment rate of 3,000 central office codes
- Average of 250 codes assigned per month
- NANP Exhaust
- April 2004 - Projected beyond 2035

## NANP Resource Administration 

- Eligibility for Resource Assignment
- Regulatory directives and industry guidelines identify who is eligible to receive NANP resources
- Most common entities receiving geographic NPA resources include ILECs, CLECs, wireless entities and paging providers
- Applicant must demonstrate it is:
- authorized to provides service in the area for which the numbering resources are requested and
- capable of providing service within 60 days of resource activation
- These requirements pertain to both central office codes (10,000 numbers) and pooled blocks (1,000 numbers) available via the National Pooling Administrator (PA)

## NANP Resource Administration

- Applying for Number Resources
- All applications for numbering resources (i.e., CO codes or blocks) in mandatory pooling rate centers must be submitted to the PA
- For optional pooling rate centers, participating service providers submit their request for blocks to the PA while non-participating carriers go directly to NANPA for CO codes
- For rate centers excluded from pooling, all requests go directly to NANPA

## NANP Resource Administration

- Thousands Block Pooling Implementation in U.S.
- State Trials
- First was Illinois 847 implemented June 1, 1998
- Between June 1998 and March 2002, state trial pools were implemented in 27 states and over 100 NPAs
- National Pooling Administration System (PAS) rolled out on March 15, 2002
- There are 20,584 rate centers in U.S. NPAs, of which:
- 7,372 have mandatory number pooling
- 5,766 inside Top 100 MSAs
- 1,606 not in Top 100 MSAs but mandatory as a result of state pooling trials
- 903 have mandatory pooling with only a single service provider
- 5,861 have optional pooling rate centers
- 6,448 are excluded from pooling
- Pools have been opened in all 272 U.S. NPAs
- 266 NPAs have assigned blocks
- NPAs without assigned blocks: MA 351, GA 470, PA 878, AK 907, PR 939, MI 947

## NANP Resource Administration

- Number of CO Codes Opened to Replenish Pools
- 2,890
- Number of CO Codes Saved as a Result of 1K Block Number Pooling
- 12,617
- Number of Assigned Blocks in PAS

## NANP Resource Administration

## Current Status of the NANP

- Number optimization measures have proved successful
- Delay in both NPA and NANP exhaust
- Demand shifted from codes to blocks
- Increasing block assignments
- Better positioned to absorb changes in the marketplace and associated demand impacts
- Increased awareness of number usage
- NRUF reporting

## Looking Forward at NANP Exhaust

- Potential drivers of NANP exhaust:
- Introduction of new technology/services/players
- Changes in eligibility requirements
- Participation in current optimization efforts
- LRN requirements
- Use of numbers
- Number optimization efforts
- Further deployment of existing optimization measures
- Implementation of other optimization measures to increase utilization of existing resources