NANPA First Quarter 2010 Updates

In reviewing the First Quarter 2010 NANPA Newsletter, we found several items of interest and are recapping them for you below:

2009 NANP Resource Status Update

• NPA Codes --
  ~~ Seven area codes were assigned in 2009: 938/Alabama, 849/Dominican Republic, 531/Nebraska, 579/Quebec, 721/Sint Maarten, 249/Ontario, and 327/Arkansas.
  ~~ Eight area codes went into service in 2009: 681/West Virginia, 385/Utah, 747/California, 849/Dominican Republic, 872/Illinois, 442/California, 475/Connecticut, and 533/relief of PCS 500.
• Central Office Code Activity – 2,144 central office codes were assigned by NANPA, with 534 codes returned/reclaimed.

NANPA Nuggets

• The "Numbering Resource Utilization in the United States" report, utilizing NRUF data of as of 6/30/09, was released by the FCC and can be found at http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/iatd/recent.html.
• The FCC was notified by DSMI, the designated Toll Free Administrator, of the projected exhaust of current toll free numbers. Approval was requested to release the 855 NPA code, with an availability timeframe of no later than 4Q2011.
• The 2009 NANPA Annual Report, which "provides an excellent summary of the status of all NANP resources, addresses NANPA’s quality assurance measurements, and includes a summary of numbering activities over the past year", is now available on NANPA’s website.

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