Standard Effective Date for Thousands-Blocks

As a reminder, per section 8.2.4 of the Thousands-Block Number (NXX-X) Pooling
Administration Guidelines:

8.2.4

Applicants requiring an Effective Date more than 33 calendar days after the date the PA receives the application should specify their desired Effective Date. An application without an Effective Date will be assigned the standard PA-assigned minimum Effective Date of 24 calendar days after the Allocation Date; this allows the standard 5 days for AOCN entry of data into BIRRDS plus the standard 19-day notification interval. The PA shall always assure a minimum of 24 calendar days between the Allocation Date and the Effective Date, unless requested otherwise through the expedite process (see Section 8.6). SPs must allow at least two calendar days beyond the Effective Date prior to activating TNs within the assigned thousands-block. For example, if the Effective Date is October 28, XXXX, an SP can start assigning TNs on October 30, XXXX. This is necessary in order to allow for NPAC processing and downloading to occur. The 21 calendar day notification interval (i.e., from AOCN input of thousands-block data into BIRRDS through completion of NPAC processing) is necessary because of some SP's internal company notification processes (19 days) and the 2-day NPAC update. It should be noted that interconnection arrangements and facilities need to be in place prior to activation of a thousands-block. Such arrangements are outside the scope of these guidelines.