Wireless Number Portability Operations

Status Report to NANC

December 10, 2002

James Grasser, Co-Chair

Report Items

  • The Wireless Number Portability Operations team met in December 2002 on Monday the 9th and Tuesday the 10th.
  • Introductions were given and the agenda reviewed.
  • Meeting minutes from October and November were approved
  • WNPO Co-chair, Brigitte Brown, submitted her resignation; nominations will be accepted; election will be held in January.
  • New business:
  1. Inter-carrier Testing – implementations of NPAC Release 3.2 and Version 2.0 of the WICIS are causing concern regarding inter-carrier testing; pairs of service providers will have to carefully coordinate their testing to ensure that they are both on the same software versions.
  1. Wireless Number Portability Testing and impacts on Production NPAC – discussion centered on the concern regarding whether inter-carrier testing would use the production NPAC or a test bed; coordination needs to occur during early stages of testing so that pairs of service providers agree as to which NPAC data base they will be using.
  1. BFRs/SLAs – contact information for specific companies is difficult to find; a request was made to redistribute the BFR form that was developed last year at WNPO; another request was made to compile contact information.
  1. Inadvertant Ports of Wireless Numbers – now that wireless codes are open for porting and pooling, some wireless service providers are experiencing inadvertant ports of their customer’s telephone numbers; this is causing problems because neither the wireless service providers nor some wireline service providers are prepared to handle interspecies porting.
  1. Impact of wireline service providers entering wireless MDNs (telephone numbers) in LIDB data bases – it was identified that there are some states that require wireline companies to enter telephone numbers assigned to wireless service providers into LIDB data bases; the wireless companies are unaware of when this is occurring; problems may occur when a wireline service provider attempts to enter information into LIDB for a telephone number that already exists in LIDB.
  • NeuStar presented their report: there is no new entrant testing occurring at this time; work is under way on Release 3.2; there are a total of 40 wireless service providers who have completed NDAs, applications, and inter-connection plans as of the end of November; a total of 7 wireless service providers/service bureaus have completed new entrant testing.

NeuStar reported that there were a total of 225,000+ net wireless intra-service provider ports across all NPAC regions so that contaminated blocks could be donated to the Pool Administrator.

  • The revisions to the reseller flows were reviewed; several corrections were identified and reported to the LNPA WG.
  • A report was presented by the NENA representative.
  1. It was noted that a patch is available from one switch vendor so that the MIN would be sent to the NPAC for unregistered phones
  2. NENA has formed a special technical working group to identify technical and operational issues regarding uninitialized phones and what groups would be responsible for resolving those issues.
  • The WTSC provided a read-out of testing progress: the only update to the test schedule is that testing in the Hartford MSA has been postponed until 2003; by 11/24/02, inter-carrier testing was completed in seven MSAs; seven wireless service providers and two wireline service providers participated in inter-carrier testing in various combinations in those MSAs.
  • Implementation Guideline and Narrative were both updated and are attached.

Next meeting is in Phoenix, AZ on January 13th and 14th.

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