MIDWEST REGION LNP OPERATIONS TEAM

MEETING MINUTES FROM

AUGUST 27, 1998

 

 

A conference call was held on 8-27-98. The following people attended:

 

Dick Dowd MCI Liz Coakley Ameritech

OC Jackson AT&T Doug Kruger GTE

Robin Meier Ameritech Roger Marshall Ameritech

Darin Liston Sprint- Local Deena Hunter Time Warner

Sue Seitz Ameritech Terry Newkirk Time Warner

Brent Struthers ICC Shannon Collins Lockheed Martin

Ralph McCray Time Warner Glenn Unger Wisconsin PUC

 

Agenda:

 

Code Opening

Exception Codes

Law Enforcement Meetings

Cross Regional Operations Meeting

Number Pooling Flows

Wireless

Co-Chair

Rate Center Consolidation

Future Meetings

 

NEXT MEETING:

Conference Call scheduled for 9-16-98

9:00 AM CDT

Call in number 312-814-8097, meet me bridge

Agenda:

  1. Number pooling manual contamination flow change needed
  2. Law Enforcement meeting update
  3. ICC meeting agenda item
  4. NIIF Issue update
  5. Cross regional meeting
  6. Next meeting

 

CODE OPENING:

 

Extensive discussion took place regarding code opening schedules.

 

MCI, AT&T, and Time Warner expressed dissatisfaction with the schedule provided by Ameritech for opening the codes with a NRD prior to 9-1-98.

 

Time Warner specifically identified in other regions companies opened all NPA-NXX’s at the time they made the switch LNP capable. During discussion it was stated that the Midwest Region industry agreements were made prior to other regional agreements. Other regions may have made different agreements after the Midwest Region flows were finalized, which gave companies the opportunity to budget resources appropriately. It was pointed out that Ameritech budgeting and staffing resources for LNP were based on the agreements finalized (April 1997) in the Midwest Region. The revised agreements, made in May 1998, make additional demands on current resource allocations.

 

AT&T pointed out if a CLEC submitted all of the remaining codes Ameritech would have to open them in the 45+5 day time frame. AT&T didn’t understand why Ameritech needed the amount of time identified in the phased schedule presented. AT&T particularly objected to any codes going into January of 1999, and had problems with late 1998. They stated if the codes had been requested, they would already be completed. AT&T was looking for clarification on why Ameritech can’t do all of the codes right away as Ameritech would have to do them if they were submitted by a CLEC via the code opening process.

 

Ameritech stated that any codes submitted by a CLEC would be, and were being completed per designated industry agreements. It was also noted that the codes in question were not selected by any CLEC. As discussed in prior meetings it was not Ameritech’s intent to do a flash cut with the remaining codes, and a phased in schedule would be developed. The phased in schedule was developed with the intent to make the remaining NPA-NXX’s LNP capable as aggressively as possible. At the time the target date was presented it was unclear the total numbers of codes remaining to be made LNP capable. The current schedule Ameritech provided was based on resources, workloads, commitments for other projects, and number of remaining codes prior to 9-1-98.

 

MCI also disagreed with the schedule provided, and would like to see the work completed prior to the dates provided. MCI requested the objections stated be noted in the meeting minutes. It was also noted that MCI had submitted over 200 codes via the code opening process in mid August. Most, if not all of the codes submitted were codes prior to 9-1-98 NRD and MCI was concerned about the effective date that would be used. The codes submitted by MCI were given effective dates in accordance with the industry agreements of 45+5 days which superseded any later effective dates which may have been originally assigned.

 

Additional discussion regarding code opening surrounded code opening schedules from other companies. It was noted that Ameritech was the only company to provide a code opening schedule. MCI sent a note declaring their code opening status prior to the conference call. Time Warner declared that all of the Time Warner codes were open. Sprint was working on getting their codes open. AT&T declared they would provide their schedule by 9-4-98 and their remaining codes would be open by 9-30-98. Other companies in the Midwest region were not present on the call.

 

Action Item: On the ICC LNP Steering Committee meeting agenda for the Operations team is an agenda item for rollout schedules. Per Brent Struthers (ICC) the action item is for companies to submit their schedules for code opening at this time. The meeting is scheduled on 10-01-98 9:30am CDT at 160 N. LaSalle, floor 8, Chicago, Illinois. Any company not normally attending may provide their schedules to Robin Meier for presentation during the operations team report out.

 

EXEPTION CODES:

 

AT&T was looking for clarification on certain exception codes. Specifically mentioned was SIC - Special 800 Service Code. No one on the call was able to provide information on what this code was used for. Robin Meier will research this and provide an explanation. AT&T will send a memo if there are other codes they would like clarification for.

 

LAW ENFORCEMENT

 

The Southwest region has adopted the Lockheed Martin IVR for use by law enforcement in the Southwest region. The system is proposed to be ready by 9/4/98. Note: At the National LNP Law Enforcement meeting on 9-10-98 it was identified that the Southwest regional IVR will be available at the end of September.

 

Meeting minutes from the National Law enforcement meeting held on 9-10-98 will be provided as soon as they become available. Lockheed Martin will continue to provide password (PIN) administration until the password administration issues have been resolved. As of 8-27 approximately 35 PINs have been assigned in the Midwest Region.

 

LNP law enforcement presentations are scheduled for NENA annual meetings in Stevens Point, Wisconsin on September 29 and Plainfield, Indiana on October 21. Michigan and Ohio have not been scheduled to date.

CROSS REGIONAL OPERATIONS MEETING

 

On 9/10 information became available that the meeting minutes from the 8/5 Toronto meeting would be available during the week of 9/14. The next cross regional meeting will be held on 10/7/98.

 

NUMBER POOLING

 

National Number Pooling guidelines are expected to be completed in September.

 

AT&T had a question about 1000 block indicators being identified in the LERG. Shannon Collins identified that 1000 block ownership won’t be in the LERG until March 1999. Currently this effects the pooled blocks in 847. The Bellcore modification is scheduled to be due in March 1999.

 

Added note: It appears that the Number Pooling feature won’t be turned on for release 1.4 until January of 1999. I’ve been told that we will continue the Illinois trial in a manual mode until that time. The contaminated processes will have to be reviewed to discuss the aging dates we agreed to in the industry meetings for the contaminated manual flow.

 

WIRELINE/WIRELESS LNP

 

We need to check within our individual companies to determine issues related to wireline to wireless, wireless to wireline, wireless to wireless (Type 1) portability. We need to determine the issues (if any) that the Midwest Region Operations team would need to address. Addressing these issues would not only need the expertise of the wireline SME’s but would also need participation from the wireless side as porting may occur between both entities. This will be discussed in later meetings as information is gathered. Note: The wireless FCC date was extended from 6-30-99 to March 2000.

 

RATE CENTER CONSOLIDATION ISSUES

 

There was a question if this group would be addressing rate center consolidation. At this time no company or group has presented any issues for the Midwest Region LNP Operations Team to resolve.

 

 

 

 

 

CO-CHAIR

 

It was discussed if the group needed to look for another Co-chair to replace OC Jackson. At this time it was determined that we would not need to do that.

 

OPEN ISSUES/STATUS ITEMS FOR 1998

 

Number Pooling -

Robin Meier

Midwest Region Operations Team