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Change Order 41
directed the Pooling
Administrator (PA) to perform a
one-time scrub of the entire PAS
Database to reduce the
likelihood that carriers will
receive over-contaminated blocks
or incorrectly identified
contaminated blocks in lieu of
pristine blocks. The PA
provided a list of blocks to the
NPAC in order to determine the
contamination level of each
block. The NPAC then
provided the PA with the
results; the PA compared
the NPAC data against the block
contamination status in PAS.
Out of the 189,552 available
blocks, 10,758 resulted in a
discrepancy, which meant that
the information entered by the
Service Provider into PAS or the
NPAC was incorrect, and in
addition, out of the 10,758
discrepant blocks, 506 blocks
appeared to be over 10%
contaminated. The carriers
involve din these discrepancies
were notified to correct these
discrepancies. Following
is a list of explanations from
the carriers as to why they had
discrepancies:
Lack of
communication between the
carriers departments;
The SPs did
not realize they needed to do
intra-SP ports prior to donating
blocks;
The SPs did
not have a process in place to
notify the PA when the
contamination status of a
previously donated block goes
from contaminated to
non-contaminated;
Some SPs
mistakenly believed that
updating NRUF automatically
updated the NPAC; and
Some SPs
thought they could donate the
block even though it was over
10% contaminated, if the numbers
were ported to another carrier. |
