1. 1 National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services NANC Meeting September 14, 2004

2. 2 Status of Change Orders Approved and Implemented: No. 29 - INC Issue 426 Auto populate Part 3 remarks with information from comments on donation form. Approved by FCC: July 19, 2004 Implemented:August 30, 2004 Pending: No. 24 – Recurring NPAC reports, held in abeyance pending outcome of Change Order #26 report and recommendation. NOWG recommendation to FCC 8/26/04. No. 25 - A request from a carrier to have the PAS generate a Part 4 report. No. 27 - Extending Forecast Report from 12 to 18 months

3. 3 Status of Change Orders, contd New: No. 30 – INC Issue 423 LERG assignee confirmation of activation in PSTN for Industry Inventory Pool Sent to FCC: July 23, 2004

4. 4 Pooling Administration System (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%

5. 5 Summary of Monthly Reports to FCC Thousands Block Pooling Report July, 2004 Report (data from June 1 through June 30, 2004) August, 2004 Report (data from July 1 through July 31) ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 51983292155742 ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 48773662555498

6. 6 Comparison of Total Applications Processed for June and July, 2003 and 2004 June:20032004% change Approved:2567 5198+102% Denied:351329-6% Suspended:215160-26% TOTAL:30785742+87% July:20032004% change Approved:34734877+40% Denied:357366+3% Suspended:242255+5% TOTAL:40725498+35%

7. 7 Summary of Reports contd. System Performance Report July, 2004 Report (6/1/04 thru 6/30/04 data) Percent availability: 100 Hours/Minutes of Availability: 720 hours Number of instances of unavailability: 0 August, 2004 Report (7/1 thru 7/31 data) Percent availability: 100 Hours/Minutes of Availability: 744 Number of instances of unavailability: 0

8. 8 Other PA Activities of Interest Non-Participating Carriers Report As of August 26, 2004 Of 1723 rate centers on the July list, 1403 remain. 49 OCNs have become 100% compliant. 252 OCNs have no change. 17 OCNs have made some progress toward compliance. PA Annual Performance Survey Distributed September 1 Deadline September 17 May be submitted electronically, email or fax

9. 9 Other PA Activities of Interest PAS Timeout Effective August 30, the duration of the PAS time out feature was extended to 20 minutes Disaster Recovery Testing Successfully completed operational and technical disaster recovery testing the week of August 23 rd.

10. 10 Red Light Rule Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, FCC 04-72, MD Docket 02-339, adopted March 25, 2004 (a/k/a Red Light Rule) Provides that anyone filing an application or seeking a benefit from the Commission or one of its components (including the Universal Service Administrative Corporation, the Telecommunications Relay Service, or the North American Numbering Plan Administrator) who is delinquent in debts owed to the Commission will be barred from receiving a license or other benefit until the delinquency has been resolved. The PA is also being directed to withhold assignment of numbering resources to an entity identified by the FCC as delinquent in its payments to the Commission. The planned effective date for this process to begin is October 1, 2004. The PA will then deny the assignment of numbering resources to the identified Operating Company Number (OCN).