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Quarterly Pooling Tip – April 2018
To Begin Pooling in an Excluded Rate Center
At any time a service provider (SP) can request that the PA open up an
Excluded rate center to
Optional pooling. To
accomplish this the SP would need to email the Customer Support Desk at
poolingsupport@neustar.biz. In
their email the SP should request that the Excluded rate center in an NPA be
opened up to Optional pooling.
Once the updates have been completed the SP may submit a forecast, disconnect,
or new resource request in PAS. To view the report that contains a list of rate
centers by NPA, which also includes the rate center’s pooling status, please go
to the
NPA/Rate Center Report. This report is located under the
Report tab on the pooling homepage,
www.nationalpooling.com.
Below are the descriptions for the Rate Center Pooling Status Designations for
Optional and Excluded.
- Optional (O) - This rate center is not in the top 100 MSA and
any service providers with numbering resources in this rate center
may elect to pool at its option. Service providers may voluntarily
participate in thousands-block number pooling in an Optional rate
center outside the top 100 MSAs.
- Excluded (X) - This rate center is not in a top 100 MSA
and no service provider is currently participating in pooling. This
rate center is not included in the Pooling Administrator System. To
begin pooling in an excluded rate center, please contact the
Customer Support Desk at 866-neu-pool (866-638-7665) or
poolingsupport@neustar.biz for assistance.
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There are many benefits to begin pooling in an excluded rate center:
- If you have more than a 6 month inventory of numbers in an
excluded rate center those blocks may be disconnected/donated to the
pool and would help prevent a new code from being opened in that
rate center when another SP needs numbering resources in that
previously excluded rate center.
- If a new code needs to be opened for replenishment and the
entire full code is not needed, but just a block or two, when
ordered via PAS the blocks that are not needed are automatically
disconnected/donated to the pool. If the code was ordered through
NANPA via NAS an extra step is needed to disconnect/donate unneeded
blocks to the pool.
- Along with confirming that the resources are in-service if
ordered via PAS then the confirmation of in-service (Part 4) would
be completed in PAS rather than having to manually track that the
confirmation of in-service (Part 4) is completed in NAS.
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If you have any questions, please contact the Number Pooling Customer
Support at 1-866-NEUPOOL or
poolingsupport@team.neustar.
To view previous Quarterly Pooling Tips (formerly Pooling Tips of the Month),
click here.