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- From: mc/G=Brad/S=Hicks/OU=0205925@mhs.attmail.com
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- Subject: 950-0666 Becomes, Well, 950
- Message-ID: <telecom12.862.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:10:49 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 862, Message 1 of 8
-
- Here at MasterCard, we received the following piece of
- incomprehensible bureaucratese from the office of Bellcore's Wendy K.
- Messer, NANPA Administration, LCC 1B231, 290 West Mt. Pleasant Ave.,
- Livingston, NJ 07039. I'm forwarding it both because the content may
- be of interest and as an example of Bellcore's dealings with
- end-users. (Any typos or misspellings are almost certainly mine.)
-
- For those of you who really are interested in the content, I've
- affixed an attempt at a translation at the end. As you read this,
- remember that this memo as addressed to our Director of Operations
- Administration, a management, not engineering, position.
-
- - - - - - - - - - -
-
- North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) is responsible
- for the assignment of Carrier Identification Codes (CICs) to entities
- (interexchange carriers and end users). NANPA maintains records of
- the assignments and issues reports to the FCC and industry as
- required. Our records show that one or more CIC(s) have been assigned
- to your company.
-
- NANPA is contacting you via this certified letter in connection with
- the industry project to expand CICs from three to four digits, which
- is outlined in the Industry Carrier Compatibility Forum (ICCF) CIC
- Administrative Guidelines. The first phase affects FG B and is
- scheduled for 1Q93. At that time, two things will occur First, CICs
- will be split into two separate pools, one for Feature Group B (FG B)
- and one for Feature Group D (FG D). After this split occurs, any
- entity wishing to purchase both FG B and FG D access will have to
- request separate FG B and FG D CICs, and there is no guarantee that
- the CICs assigned for FG B and FG D service will be the same. Second
- those existing three-digit CICs which are designated as FG B CICs,
- i.e. CICs which are used in the carrier access code 950-WXXX (where
- the assignee has selected the W digit as 0 or 1), will be expanded to
- four digits by prefixing the three digit CIC with the selected W
- digit. New CICs will be assigned as 4 digits. FG D CICs will remain
- at three digits until FG D expansion, which is currently scheduled for
- 1995. At that time, they will be expanded by prefixing a 0 to the
- three-digit FG D CIC. Existing CIC assignments will be designated as
- FG B or FG D based on type of access as of 1Q93.
-
- Thus, FG B CICs will be expanded as follows: CIC XXX with W = 0
- (950-0XXX) will become FG B CIC 0XXX. Likewise, CIC XXX with W = 1
- (950-1XXX) will become FG B CIC 1XXX. If the CIC is currently in use
- for FG D, the entity will retain the assignment of the three-digit CIC
- for FG D. Usage will be determined from the quarterly usage reports
- submitted to NANPA by the local exchange carriers. If the CIC is not
- currently used for FG D, the CIC will be made available to another
- entity for FG D.
-
- The attached sheet lists the CIC assignment(s) on record for your
- company, as well as the type of use, i.e. FG B and/or FG D. It also
- lists your assignment(s) as they will look after FG B expansion
- occurs. Please check the information for accuracy, make any changes
- necessary, sign it, and return it to NANPA at the address indicated.
- If the information is correct, please sign the sheet and return it to
- NANPA also. If you believe the information is incorrect, please
- explain why. Your reply must also be returned by the date indicated
- or else we will proceed with the information as listed. You are also
- responsible for notifying NANPA if there are any subsequent changes to
- the information.
-
- New CIC assignment guidelines have been developed by the industry
- through the ICCF. These guidelines, which cover the transition from
- three-to four-digit CICs and assignment procedures for four-digit
- CICs, seek maximum industry cooperation in this important effort, and
- we ask that you help us accordingly. Copies are available on request.
-
- If you have any questions, please call Jim Deak on 201-xxx-xxxx or me
- on 201-xxx-xxxx.
-
- Thank you,
- (s) Wendy Messer
-
- - - - - - - - - - -
-
- Did you make it through that?
-
- TRANSLATION: Right now if a company owns both a 950-0nnn (or 950-1nnn)
- code AND a 10-nnn-0 code, the "nnn" is the same. Bellcore is breaking
- this so that they have more slack in the 950-nnnn pseudo-exchange ...
- and while they're at it, they're expanding the 0/1 after the 950 to
- any digit, so they can assign numbers like 950-7448 or 950-3825.
-
- So if you're at a company called (for example) Hellcore, and you own
- "FG B" number 950-0666, but you're not a long-distance carrier with
- the 10-666-0 prefix, then after early next year if somebody wants to
- start a long-distance carrier, say, "Ma Hell," and use 10-666-0 as
- their access number, then they can. If this confuses telecom-literate
- customers who are used to relating the 950-0nnn and 10-nnn-0 codes, so
- be it. Oh yeah, and some time in the 1995 (for example) Ma Hell's
- 10-666-0 will probably become 10-0666-0, too.
-
- As our in-house telephone guru put it when the memo finally got to
- him: "Why didn't they just =say= that?"
-
-
- J. Brad Hicks Internet: mhs!mc!Brad_Hicks@attmail.com
- X.400: c=US admd=ATTMAIL prmd=MasterCard sn=Hicks gn=Brad
- I am not an official MasterCard spokesperson, and the message above does
- not contain official MasterCard statements or policies.
-