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Quarterly Pooling Tip – July 2014
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Administrative and Test Numbers are not Considered Assigned
When Completing a Part 4 form
A Part 4 - Thousands-Block Number Administrator Guidelines
Confirmation Form must be completed by a Service Provider (SP) for
an assigned block when assigned numbers are placed in-service.
Administrative numbers (which includes LRNs) and test numbers are
NOT considered assigned numbers.
Also a submission of a Part 4 should not be confused with confirming
PSTN activation of a code. These are two separate items.
Below are the definitions for Assigned Numbers,
Administrative Numbers, and In Service from the
Thousands-Block Number Pooling Administrator Guidelines.
- Assigned Numbers
Assigned numbers are numbers working in the PSTN under an
agreement such as a contract or tariff at the request of
specific end users or customers for their use, or numbers
not yet working but having a customer service order pending.
Numbers that are not yet working and have a service order
pending for more than five calendar days shall not be
classified as assigned numbers. (FCC 00-104 §52.15 (f)(1)
(iii))
Ported-out numbers should be included as a subcategory of
assigned numbers. (FCC 00-104 ¶ 36).
- Administrative Numbers
Administrative numbers are numbers used by
telecommunications carriers to perform internal
administrative or operational functions necessary to
maintain reasonable quality of service standards. FCC 00-104
§52.15 (f)(1) (i).
Subcategories of administrative numbers are: test numbers,
employee/official numbers, Location Routing Numbers,
Temporary Local Directory Numbers (TLDN), soft dial tone
numbers and wireless E911 emergency service routing
digit/key (ESRD/ESRK) numbers. (FCC 00-104 ¶ 36).
- In Service
A code or block for which local routing information appears
in the LERG Routing Guide, and one or more telephone numbers
within the NXX code or NXX-X block has been Assigned to an
end user (FCC 00-104, ¶240). Numbers that are categorized as
Administrative, Aging, Intermediate, Reserved, or Available
cannot also be Assigned and do not satisfy the In Service
requirement.
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