1. 1 National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services NANC Meeting January 19, 2005

2. 2 Status of Change Orders Approved by FCC 1/2005: No. 27 - Extend Forecast Report from 12 to 18 months No. 30 –INC issue 423 - LERG Assignee confirmation of activation in the PSTN for Industry Inventory Pool No. 31 – Expand Query Options for Donation Report No. 32 – Modify Process for Deleting PAS work items No. 33 – Modify Search/Forms View Query No. 35 – Red Light Rule Interim Manual Process No. 36 – Red Light Rule System Modification

3. 3 Status of Change Orders, contd Cancelled by FCC: No. 25 - A request from a carrier to have the PAS generate a Part 4 report. Will be resubmitted. No. 34 – Modify Part 1A Report. Will be resubmitted. To be withdrawn and resubmitted: No. 24 – LNPA WG PIM 24/INC CO/NXX Issue 364 Recurring NPAC reports, held in abeyance pending outcome of Change Order #26 report and recommendation. NOWG recommendation to FCC 8/26/04.

4. 4 PAS Assignment Volume 2004 Total assigned blocks in PAS Total assigned blocks as of January 1, 2004 29,027 January 3131,157 +7.3% February 2933,402+7.2% March 3135,781+7.1% April 30 38,029+6.2% May 3139,946+5% June 3042,385+6.1% July 3144,726+5.5% August 3147,566+6.3% September 3050,079+5% October 3153,882+7.6% November 3056,991+5.8% December 3161,118+7.2% Increase from Jan 1 to Dec 31 +111%

5. 5 Summary of Monthly Reports to FCC Thousands Block Pooling Report November 2004 Report (data from October 1 through October 31) December 2004 Report (data from November 1 through November 30) ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 66144996957808 ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 55345663396439

6. 6 Summary of Reports, contd. System Performance Report November 2004 Report (data from October 1 through October 31) Percent availability: 100 Hours/Minutes of Availability: 744 hours Number of instances of unavailability: 0 December 2004 Report (data from November 1 through November 30) Percent availability: 100 Hours/Minutes of Availability: 720 Number of instances of unavailability: 0

7. 7 Other PA Activities of Interest Non-Participating Carriers Report Pooling Implementation Managers (PIMs) called all service providers on the new report Forecast and donations deadline - January 10 th The Pooling Administrators (PAs) processing completion deadline - January 17th Report to the FCC by the end of the month Rate Center File Audit The PIMs audited the 18,986 rate centers in the Pooling Administration System (PAS) to confirm accuracy 2,272 rate centers were corrected 544 rate centers were changed from optional or excluded to mandatory The changes are on the website www.nationalpooling.com, click on Reports, then Rate Center Changeswww.nationalpooling.com