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Quarterly Pooling Tip – July 2015
To Begin Pooling in an Excluded Rate Center
At any time a service provider (SP) can request that the PA open up an
Excluded
rate center to
Optional pooling. To accomplish this the SP would need to email
the Customer Support Desk at
poolingsupport@team.neustar. In their email the SP
should request that the Excluded rate center in an NPA be opened up to Optional
pooling.
Once the updates have been completed the SP may submit a forecast, disconnect,
or new resource request in PAS. To view the report that contains a list of rate
centers by NPA, which also includes the rate center’s pooling status, please go
to the
NPA/Rate Center Report. This report is located under the
Report tab on
the pooling homepage,
www.nationalpooling.com.
Below are the descriptions for the Rate Center Pooling Status Designations for
Optional and Excluded.
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Optional (O) - This rate center is not in the top 100 MSA and any service providers with numbering resources in this rate center may elect to pool at its option. Service providers may voluntarily participate in thousands-block number pooling in an Optional rate center outside the top 100 MSAs. |
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Excluded (X) - This rate center is not in a top 100 MSA and no service provider is currently participating in pooling. This rate center is not included in the Pooling Administrator System. To begin pooling in an excluded rate center, please contact the Customer Support Desk at 866-neu-pool (866-638-7665) or
poolingsupport@team.neustar for assistance. |
There are many benefits to begin pooling in an excluded rate center:
- If you have more than a 6 month inventory of numbers in an excluded rate
center those blocks may be disconnected/donated to the pool and would help
prevent a new code from being opened in that rate center when another SP needs
numbering resources in that previously excluded rate center.
- If a new code needs to be opened for replenishment and the entire full code is
not needed, but just a block or two, when ordered via PAS the blocks that are
not needed are automatically disconnected/donated to the pool. If the code was
ordered through NANPA via NAS an extra step is needed to disconnect/donate
unneeded blocks to the pool.
- Along with confirming that the resources are in-service if ordered via PAS
then the confirmation of in-service (Part 4) would be completed in PAS rather
than having to manually track that the confirmation of in-service (Part 4) is
completed in NAS.
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If you have any questions, please contact the Number Pooling
Customer Support at 1-866-NEUPOOL or
poolingsupport@team.neustar.
To view previous Pooling Tips of the Month,
click here.