Wireless Number Portability Operations
Status Report to NANC
July 15, 2003
Sean Hawkins, Co-Chair
Maggie Lee, Co-Chair
Report Items
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The Wireless Number Portability Operations team met on June 9 th, 10th and July 7th,
8th 2003.
WTSC and WNPO Joint Meeting
 The latest WTSC testing schedule and test cases are posted at www.npac.com
for all carriers to view.
 Joe Charles – Cingular – completed his one year of service and an election was
held in June. Susan Sill of AT&T Wireless was elected to perform the open cochair position.
 WTSC was requested to consider the potential for organizing a “Performance”
Test that would focus on system processing based on volumes of transaction
activity. It was determined that this could be a very difficult undertaking,
insufficient time and resources may be available to plan and perform this testing.
 WTSC notes that carriers will discontinue Inter-Carrier Process Testing no later
than November 15 and will not resume testing until no earlier than January 15,
2004. Consequently, carriers that have not performed ICP testing may be
prohibited from using their HTI ICP for production porting during that period if
they have not successfully tested with trading partners requiring testing prior to
production exchange.
 Gary Eads – US Cellular – has resigned as co-chair – Currently the position is
still open.
WNPO
 Resignation of Sean Hawkins as co-chair of WNPO – Business decisions have
added to my responsibilities and thus I must discontinue my service as co-chair.
Currently we are excepting nominations for a new co-chair for the WNPO.
 Update from OBF - The ongoing JIP issue was discussed in May at the Wireless
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Workshop. While the long-term solution is always populating the JIP, this constitutes a
rather large industry change and may be years before being implemented across all
carriers. Thus far no short tem solution has been brought forth for discussion at WW.
NPAC Timers and Long Business Days for Key Holidays during retail season – This
discussion was with regard to wireless and the number of NPAC holidays that the
wireless industry continues to perform business as usual. There were several options
proposed, but after discussion in both the June and July meetings it was agreed that if
the agreements between the two providers specified that they would be open on NPAC
holidays, then normal ICP and porting concurrence should occur even though the NPAC
timers are not running.
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NPAC Helpdesk Presentation – The WNPO received a presentation from
Nuestar with regard to training for the new users of the helpdesk. This training
would be offered in the September and October time frame.
Service Provider Extended Maintenance Window – This discussion was dealing
with the first Sunday of the month where the SP has an extended maintenance
window from 12:00 AM CT until 12:00 PM CT. This will overlap the wireless
business hours on the East coast by three hours. There is continuing discussion
as to if the extended window has to be twelve hours. Reducing the window to
nine hours would ensure that wireless providers would not violate PIM 2 during
the extended maintenance window.
10 Digit Trigger Presentation – Sprint provided the WNPO with a presentation on
10 digit trigger and its use it inter-species porting. A recommendation was added
to the WNPO Decision and Recommendation Matrix that this method be used in
mixed porting if the wireline provider can support the trigger. This would lesson
the need for coordinated cuts.
NENA Report – An update from Rick Jones was given with regard to 9-1-1 Public
and PSAP Education. A draft was given to the WNPO and several comments
were made to revise the document for next month. The hope is to have this
document completed for approval and distribution by September.
Wireless Service Areas and Wireline Rate Centers with WNP - US Cellular
submitted a contribution on service areas overlapping the rate district.
The teams agreed that neither WNPO nor LNPA-WG could resolve the issue or
make a statement due to differences in interpretation and would that a clearer
definition of the order from the FCC is the more appropriate place to resolve .
Next meeting is in Redmond, WA on August 11th and 12th.
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