WNPO Monthly Meeting Minutes
May 14-15, 2001  Atlanta, GA

 

Attendance:

Name

Company

Name

Company

Jim Grasser

Cingular

Linda Godfrey

Verizon Wireless

Anne Cummins

AT&T Wireless

Gary Sacra

Verizon

Gustavo Hannecke

Neustar

Gene Perez

TSI

Marcel Champagne

Neustar

Julie Groenen

Verizon Wireless

Ron Steen

Bell South

Mark Wood

Cingular

Jean Anthony

Telecom Software

Rob Smith

TSI

Lori Tesoriero

Cingular Wireless

Jerry Hill

Cingular

Dave Cochran

Bell South

Daniel Moore

Qwest Wireless

Rebecca Tyus

Cingular Wireless

Rick Dressner

Sprint

Anthony Kies

Dynegy

Maggie Lee

Illuminet

Sharon Bridges

Verizon

John Malyar

Telcordia

Michelle Florczak

Verizon Wireless

Patrick Lockett

Sprint

Suzell Wyvill-Jones

Cingular Wireless

Dave Garner

Quest Wireless

Jason Lee

WorldCom

Christy Brannon

AT&T Wireless

Charlie Case

AllTel

Bridgitte Brown

Telecorp PCS

Richard Bell

Verizon

Cindy Sheehan

AT&T Broadband

Chris Shunk

Verizon

Michelle Gimmi

Nuvox

Jim Alton

SBC

Anna Miller

Voicestream Wireless

 

 

Meeting minutes:

 

 

Introductions and Agenda Review

 

Introductions were made and  the agenda reviewed.

 

 

Approve minutes from previous month

 

Minutes from April were reviewed and approved as written.

 

 

New Business

 

            All “New Business” items submitted at lease 10 calendar days prior to the next

            meeting will be included on the agenda for discussion at that next meeting;  all

“New Business” items submitted within 10 business days of the next meeting will

be included on the agenda for that next meeting, but will only be introduced and

not necessarily discussed.

 

            Discussed an item submitted by AT&T Wireless to request vendors to identify

            Their preparedness for wireless number portability.  Discussion of options

ranged from holding a vendor forum to sending letters/questionnaires to vendors

for a written response.  Agreement was reached to send letters.   Anne Cummins

volunteered to prepare a draft letter for the June meeting.

 

Discussed an item submitted by AT&T Wireless to assess the risks of implementing wireless number portability prior to full compliance by all wireless

roaming partners.  Anne Cummins volunteered to prepare a draft outline of a

risk assessment report which would be submitted to the NANC.

 

Discussed an item submitted by Cingular Wireless to determine if a report on

wireless number pooling was needed by the industry.  Anne Cummins offered

to check with the CTIA Task Force on Number Pooling to see if data being

gathered by that group could be shared with the WNPO.

 

 

 

Reviewed AT&T Wireless’ draft of an INC contribution for revision of LRN Assignment

guidelines.  This revision will recommend that wireless administrative type numbers

such as TLDNs and ESRDs not be used as LRNs.  The draft was approved as written.

AT&T Wireless will take this to INC as a new contribution.

 

Discussed NANC Change Order 328 to provide business hours on Sundays so that

the T1 and T2 timers will run.  In conjunction with this change order, the service

provider maintenance windows were discussed.  Currently, every Sunday, there is a

serivce provider maintenance window from 6:00A CT to 12:00P CT.  There is also

the possibility of extended maintenance windows.  The first Sunday of every month

is a maintenance window for the NPAC.  This also runs from 6:00A CT to 12:00P CT.

 

There was brief discussion regarding the Verizon contribution regarding the

“clearinghouse” concept for wireless inter-carrier communications.  A conference call

was scheduled for Monday, May 21st by CTIA to address this issue.

 

An update of the Operator Service issue was provided.  There are two possible

solutions to this issue – both require changes to the operations and procedures

for Operator Service providers.  The first solution requires an initial NP-DB query

to be launched on the Billing number to determine if it has been ported; the

second solution requires the elimination of screening out wireless NPA-NXXs

prior to performing the LIDB query as well as the need for all wireless service

providers to keep LIDB updated with the directory numbers of their customers.

 

Neustar  provided an update on wireless new entrant testing.  To date, 9 wireless

service providers have scheduled turn-up testing with Neustar.  Gustavo will bring

copies of progress reports to the June meeting so that we can determine if we need

to monitor these for wireless testing.

 

Mark Wood provided a recap of the testing committee meeting that took place the

previous week. 

 

It was announced that Anne Mardick had resigned from the committee due to a

change in job responsibilities.  Nominations for co-chair were requested – selection

will be at the June meeting/

 

Action items were reviewed:

 

Everyone is to bring in vendor contacts – names and addresses – for the vendor

                        compliance letter

            Anne Cummins will provide a draft letter for switch and SMS vendors

            Julie Groenen will provide in a list of adjunct vendors

            Anne Cummins will provide a draft outline for the Risk Assessment

Anne Cummins will provide feedback as to whether or not we can use

information gathered by the CTIA Pooling Task Force

            Gustavo will provide copies of the Neustar progress report for turn-up testing

 

 

Next Meeting –

 

            June 11 (1:00P – 5:00P CDT) and June 12 (8:30A – 12:00P CDT)

            Kansas City – Sprint Hosts        

 

 

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Future meetings:

 

WNPO / LNPA WG:                   Host:                                                                                            

July 10 – 12                               Canadian Consortium, Ottawa

August 14 - 16                           AT&T, Seattle

September 11 - 13                     Verizon, Baltimore                                

October 9 – 11                           SBC, San Antonio

November 13 - 15                       Neustar, New Orleans

December 11 – 13                      Qwest, Phoenix


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