1. 1 National Thousands Block Number Pooling Services NANC Meeting November 4, 2004

2. 2 Status of Change Orders 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 No. 30 –LERG assignee confirmation of activation in PSTN for Industry Inventory Pool

3. 3 Status of Change Orders, contd Sent to the FCC on September 17: No. 31 – Expand Query Options for Donation Report No. 32 – Modify Process for Deleting PAS work items Sent to the FCC September 30: No. 33 – Modify Search/Forms View Query No. 34 – Modify Part 1A Report Sent to the FCC October 13: No. 35 – Red Light Rule Interim Manual Process No. 36 – Red Light Rule System Modification

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%

5. 5 Summary of Monthly Reports to FCC Thousands Block Pooling Report September, 2004 Report (data from August 1 through August 31, 2004) October, 2004 Report (data from September 1 through September 30) ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 51573405106007 ApprovedDeniedSuspendedTOTAL Quantity of Applications 54176455256587

6. 6 Summary of Reports, contd. System Performance Report September, 2004 Report (data from August 1 through August 31, 2004) Percent availability: 100 Hours/Minutes of Availability: 744 hours Number of instances of unavailability: 0 October, 2004 Report (data from September 1 through September 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 continue working with FCC and service providers will begin working on new report in November using information from the completed SIMS and the current NRUF preliminary numbers indicate that the # of carriers in the new report will be substantially greater PA Annual Performance Survey distributed September 1 113 surveys returned – nearly double the 2003 response (61) average overall score was 4.4 out of 5 aggregated ratings from 4.7 (personal service) to 4.1 (PAS) Red Light Rule implemented on November 1 using the list from the preceding day made courtesy calls until November 1 to SPs on the FCC list