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FCC 52.13
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 52.13 North American Numbering Plan Administrator.
(a) The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) shall be an
independent and impartial non-government entity.
(b) The NANPA shall administer the numbering resources identified in
paragraph (d) of this section. It shall assign and administer NANP resources
in an efficient, effective, fair, unbiased, and non-discriminatory manner
consistent with industry-developed guidelines and Commission regulations. It
shall support the Commission's efforts to accommodate current and future
numbering needs. It shall perform additional functions, including but not
limited to:
(1) Ensuring the efficient and effective administration and assignment of
numbering resources by performing day-to-day number resource assignment and
administrative activities;
(2) Planning for the long-term need for NANP resources to ensure the
continued viability of the NANP by implementing a plan for number resource
administration that uses effective forecasting and management skills in
order to make the industry aware of the availability of numbering resources
and to meet the current and future needs of the industry;
(3) Complying with guidelines of the North American Industry Numbering
Committee (INC) or its successor, related industry documentation, Commission
regulations and orders, and the guidelines of other appropriate
policy-making authorities;
(4) Providing management supervision for all of the services it provides,
including responsibility for achieving performance measures established by
the NANC and the INC in industry guidelines;
(5) Participating in the NANC annual performance review as described in
Sec. Sec. 52.11 and 52.12;
(6) Establishing and maintaining relationships with current governmental and
regulatory bodies, and their successors, including the United States Federal
Communications Commission, Industry Canada, the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission, and other United States, Canadian, and
Caribbean numbering authorities and regulatory agencies, and addressing
policy directives from these bodies;
(7) Cooperating with and actively participating in numbering standards
bodies and industry fora, such as INC and, upon request, the Canadian
Steering Committee on Numbering (CSCN);
(8) Representing the NANP to national and international numbering bodies;
(9) Developing and maintaining communications channels with other countries
who also participate in the NANP to ensure that numbering needs of all
countries served by the NANP are met;
(10) Attending United States Study Group A meetings and maintaining a
working knowledge of Study Group 2 International Telecommunications Union
activities on behalf of the United States telecommunications industry;
(11) Reviewing requests for all numbering resources to implement new
applications and services and making assignments in accordance with
industry-developed resource planning and assignment guidelines;
(12) Referring requests for particular numbering resources to the
appropriate industry body where guidelines do not exist for those resources;
(13) Participating in industry activities to determine whether, when new
telecommunications services requiring numbers are proposed, NANP numbers are
appropriate and what level of resource is required (e.g., line numbers,
central office codes, NPA codes);
(14) Maintaining necessary administrative staff to handle the legal,
financial, technical, staffing, industry, and regulatory issues relevant to
the management of all numbering resources, as well as maintaining the
necessary equipment, facilities, and proper billing arrangements associated
with day-to-day management of all numbering resources;
(15) Managing the NANP in accordance with published guidelines adopted in
conjunction with the industry and the appropriate NANP member countries'
governing agencies, and referring issues to the appropriate industry body
for resolution when they have not been addressed by the industry;
(16) Responding to requests from the industry and from regulators for
information about the NANP and its administration, as the primary repository
for numbering information in the industry;
(17) Providing upon request information regarding how to obtain current
documents related to NANP administration;
(18) Providing assistance to users of numbering resources and suggesting
numbering administration options, when possible, that will optimize number
resource utilization;
(19) Coordinating its numbering resource activities with the Canadian Number
Administrator and other NANP member countries' administrators to ensure
efficient and effective management of NANP numbering resources; and
(20) Determining the final allocation methodology for sharing costs between
NANP countries.
(c) In performing the functions outlined in paragraph (b) of this section,
the NANPA shall:
(1) Ensure that the interests of all NANP member countries are considered;
(2) Assess fairly requests for assignments of NANP numbering resources and
ensure the assignment of numbering resources to appropriate service
providers;
(3) Develop, operate and maintain the computer hardware, software (database)
and mechanized systems required to perform the NANPA and central office (CO)
Code Administration functions;
(4) Manage projects such as Numbering Plan Area (NPA) relief (area code
relief) planning, Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecast (NRUF) data
collection, and NPA and NANP exhaust projection;
(5) Facilitate NPA relief planning meetings;
(6) Participate in appropriate industry activities;
(7) Manage proprietary data and competitively sensitive information and
maintain the confidentiality thereof;
(8) Act as an information resource for the industry concerning all aspects
of numbering (i.e., knowledge and experience in numbering resource issues,
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Recommendation E.164, the North
American Numbering Plan (NANP), NANP Administration, INC, NANP area country
regulatory issues affecting numbering, number resource assignment
guidelines, central office code administration, relief planning,
international numbering issues, etc.); and
(9) Ensure that any action taken with respect to number administration is
consistent with this part.
(d) The NANPA and, to the extent applicable, the B&C Agent, shall administer
numbering resources in an efficient and non-discriminatory manner, in
accordance with Commission rules and regulations and the guidelines
developed by the INC and other industry groups pertaining to administration
and assignment of numbering resources, including, but not limited to:
(1) Numbering Plan Area (NPA) codes,
(2) Central Office codes for the 809 area,
(3) International Inbound NPA 456 NXX codes,
(4) (NPA) 500 NXX codes,
(5) (NPA) 900 NXX codes,
(6) N11 Service codes,
(7) 855–XXXX line numbers,
(8) 555–XXXX line numbers,
(9) Carrier Identification Codes,
(10) Vertical Service Codes,
(11) ANI Information Integer (II) Digit Pairs,
(12) Non Dialable Toll Points, and
(13) New numbering resources as may be defined.
(e) Relationships with other NANP member countries' administrators and
authorities . The NANPA shall address policy directives from other NANP
member countries' governmental and regulatory authorities and coordinate its
activities with other NANP member countries' administrators, if any, to
ensure efficient and effective management of NANP resources.
(f) Transition plan . The NANPA shall implement a transition plan, subject
to Commission approval, leading to its assumption of NANPA functions within
90 days of the effective date of a Commission order announcing the selection
of the NANPA.
(g) Transfer of intellectual property . The new NANPA must make available
any and all intellectual property and associated hardware resulting from its
activities as numbering administrator including, but not limited to, systems
and the data contained therein, software, interface specifications and
supporting documentation and make such property available to whomever NANC
directs free of charge. The new NANPA must specify any intellectual property
it proposes to exclude from the provisions of this paragraph based on the
existence of such property prior to its selection as NANPA.
[ 61 FR 47353 , Sept. 6, 1996, as amended at 62 FR 55181 , Oct. 23, 1997; 71 FR 65750 , Nov. 9, 2006]
Goto Section: 52.12 | 52.15
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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