§ 52.13   North American Numbering Plan Administrator.

   (a) The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) shall be an
   independent and impartial non-government entity.

   (b)  The  NANPA shall administer the numbering resources identified in
   paragraph (d) of this section. It shall assign and administer NANP resources
   in an efficient, effective, fair, unbiased, and non-discriminatory manner
   consistent with industry-developed guidelines and Commission regulations. It
   shall support the Commission's efforts to accommodate current and future
   numbering needs. It shall perform additional functions, including but not
   limited to:

   (1) Ensuring the efficient and effective administration and assignment of
   numbering resources by performing day-to-day number resource assignment and
   administrative activities;

   (2)  Planning  for the long-term need for NANP resources to ensure the
   continued viability of the NANP by implementing a plan for number resource
   administration that uses effective forecasting and management skills in
   order to make the industry aware of the availability of numbering resources
   and to meet the current and future needs of the industry;

   (3) Complying with guidelines of the North American Industry Numbering
   Committee (INC) or its successor, related industry documentation, Commission
   regulations  and  orders,  and  the  guidelines  of  other appropriate
   policy-making authorities;

   (4) Providing management supervision for all of the services it provides,
   including responsibility for achieving performance measures established by
   the NANC and the INC in industry guidelines;

   (5) Participating in the NANC annual performance review as described in
   § § 52.11 and 52.12;

   (6) Establishing and maintaining relationships with current governmental and
   regulatory bodies, and their successors, including the United States Federal
   Communications Commission, Industry Canada, the Canadian Radio-television
   and Telecommunications Commission, and other United States, Canadian, and
   Caribbean numbering authorities and regulatory agencies, and addressing
   policy directives from these bodies;

   (7) Cooperating with and actively participating in numbering standards
   bodies  and industry fora, such as INC and, upon request, the Canadian
   Steering Committee on Numbering (CSCN);

   (8) Representing the NANP to national and international numbering bodies;

   (9) Developing and maintaining communications channels with other countries
   who also participate in the NANP to ensure that numbering needs of all
   countries served by the NANP are met;

   (10)  Attending United States Study Group A meetings and maintaining a
   working knowledge of Study Group 2 International Telecommunications Union
   activities on behalf of the United States telecommunications industry;

   (11)  Reviewing  requests for all numbering resources to implement new
   applications  and  services  and making assignments in accordance with
   industry-developed resource planning and assignment guidelines;

   (12)  Referring  requests  for  particular  numbering resources to the
   appropriate industry body where guidelines do not exist for those resources;

   (13) Participating in industry activities to determine whether, when new
   telecommunications services requiring numbers are proposed, NANP numbers are
   appropriate and what level of resource is required (e.g., line numbers,
   central office codes, NPA codes);

   (14)  Maintaining  necessary administrative staff to handle the legal,
   financial, technical, staffing, industry, and regulatory issues relevant to
   the  management of all numbering resources, as well as maintaining the
   necessary equipment, facilities, and proper billing arrangements associated
   with day-to-day management of all numbering resources;

   (15) Managing the NANP in accordance with published guidelines adopted in
   conjunction with the industry and the appropriate NANP member countries'
   governing agencies, and referring issues to the appropriate industry body
   for resolution when they have not been addressed by the industry;

   (16)  Responding to requests from the industry and from regulators for
   information about the NANP and its administration, as the primary repository
   for numbering information in the industry;

   (17) Providing upon request information regarding how to obtain current
   documents related to NANP administration;

   (18) Providing assistance to users of numbering resources and suggesting
   numbering administration options, when possible, that will optimize number
   resource utilization;

   (19) Coordinating its numbering resource activities with the Canadian Number
   Administrator and other NANP member countries' administrators to ensure
   efficient and effective management of NANP numbering resources; and

   (20) Determining the final allocation methodology for sharing costs between
   NANP countries.

   (c) In performing the functions outlined in paragraph (b) of this section,
   the NANPA shall:

   (1) Ensure that the interests of all NANP member countries are considered;

   (2) Assess fairly requests for assignments of NANP numbering resources and
   ensure  the  assignment  of numbering resources to appropriate service
   providers;

   (3) Develop, operate and maintain the computer hardware, software (database)
   and mechanized systems required to perform the NANPA and central office (CO)
   Code Administration functions;

   (4) Manage projects such as Numbering Plan Area (NPA) relief (area code
   relief) planning, Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecast (NRUF) data
   collection, and NPA and NANP exhaust projection;

   (5) Facilitate NPA relief planning meetings;

   (6) Participate in appropriate industry activities;

   (7) Manage proprietary data and competitively sensitive information and
   maintain the confidentiality thereof;

   (8) Act as an information resource for the industry concerning all aspects
   of numbering (i.e., knowledge and experience in numbering resource issues,
   International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Recommendation E.164, the North
   American Numbering Plan (NANP), NANP Administration, INC, NANP area country
   regulatory  issues  affecting  numbering,  number  resource assignment
   guidelines,  central  office  code  administration,  relief  planning,
   international numbering issues, etc.); and

   (9) Ensure that any action taken with respect to number administration is
   consistent with this part.

   (d) The NANPA and, to the extent applicable, the B&C Agent, shall administer
   numbering  resources in an efficient and non-discriminatory manner, in
   accordance  with  Commission  rules and regulations and the guidelines
   developed by the INC and other industry groups pertaining to administration
   and assignment of numbering resources, including, but not limited to:

   (1) Numbering Plan Area (NPA) codes,

   (2) Central Office codes for the 809 area,

   (3) International Inbound NPA 456 NXX codes,

   (4) (NPA) 500 NXX codes,

   (5) (NPA) 900 NXX codes,

   (6) N11 Service codes,

   (7) 855-XXXX line numbers,

   (8) 555-XXXX line numbers,

   (9) Carrier Identification Codes,

   (10) Vertical Service Codes,

   (11) ANI Information Integer (II) Digit Pairs,

   (12) Non Dialable Toll Points, and

   (13) New numbering resources as may be defined.

   (e) Relationships with other NANP member countries' administrators and
   authorities. The NANPA shall address policy directives from other NANP
   member countries' governmental and regulatory authorities and coordinate its
   activities with other NANP member countries' administrators, if any, to
   ensure efficient and effective management of NANP resources.

   (f) Transition plan. The NANPA shall implement a transition plan, subject to
   Commission approval, leading to its assumption of NANPA functions within 90
   days of the effective date of a Commission order announcing the selection of
   the NANPA.

   (g) Transfer of intellectual property. The new NANPA must make available any
   and all intellectual property and associated hardware resulting from its
   activities as numbering administrator including, but not limited to, systems
   and the data contained therein, software, interface specifications and
   supporting documentation and make such property available to whomever NANC
   directs free of charge. The new NANPA must specify any intellectual property
   it proposes to exclude from the provisions of this paragraph based on the
   existence of such property prior to its selection as NANPA.

   [ 61 FR 47353 , Sept. 6, 1996, as amended at  62 FR 55181 , Oct. 23, 1997;  71 FR 65750 , Nov. 9, 2006]

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