Welcome to the Numbering Resources Page. The Commission’s numbering policies are designed to ensure the efficient and effective use of telephone numbers for the provision of telecommunications services. The Commission works closely with the North American Numbering Council, the Commission’s federal advisory committee on numbering issues, state commissions, and industry groups to achieve effective numbering resource management. The Commission has sought to optimize the use of numbering resources by: (1) minimizing negative impact on consumers of premature area code exhaust; (2) ensuring access to numbering resources for all service providers; (3) extending the life of the NANP; (4) imposing the least societal cost possible, and ensuring competitive neutrality; (5) minimizing incentives for carriers to carry excessively large inventories of numbers. Some of the measures used by the Commission include: area code relief; thousands-block number pooling; and local number portability.

9/1/05
ORDER: Granting a temporary waiver of the Commission’s numbering rules to allow carriers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the numbering administrators that support them, to port telephone numbers geographically outside of rate centers during this period of service disruption. FCC 05-161. CC DKT 95-116.
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6/1/05
PUBLIC NOTICE: Announcing the Proposed North American Numbering Plan Administration Fund Size Estimate and Contribution Factor for July 2005 through June 2006. DA 05-1565, CC DKT 92-237.
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4/28/05
PUBLIC NOTICE: Announcing the appointment of Regina Brown, staff attorney, Telecommunication Access Policy Division, to serve as the Designated Federal Officer to FCC's federal advisory committee. CC Docket Nos. 92-237 and 99-200. DA 05-1266.
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4/26/05
PUBLIC NOTICE: Inviting parties to refresh the record regarding issues raised on the two CIC per entity limit and the definition of the term "entity" as found in Section 1.3 of the CIC Assignment Guidelines, in the FNPRM in the Carrier Identification Code (CIC) docket, CC Docket No. 92-237. DA 05-1154.
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3/14/05
6th R&O: Implementing the Pipeline Safety Act, which provides for the establishment of a nationwide toll-free abbreviated dialing arrangement to be used by state One Call notification systems. FCC 05-59. CC DKT 92-105.
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3/3/05
ORDER: RE: Nextel Communications, Inc and Sprint Corporation Applications for Transfer of Control of Licenses and Authorizations, Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecast (NRUF) Reports, and Local Number Portability Reports Placed Into the Record, Subject to Protective Order. DA 05-568. CC Dkt. Nos. 99-200, 95-116.
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2/1/05
ORDER: Granting SBC Internet Services permission to obtain numbering resources directly from the North American Numbering Plan Adminstrator or the Pooling Administrator for use in deploying IP-enabled services. FCC 05-20,CC DKT 99-200.
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