Extension Granted as FCC Chairman Pai Bids Good-Bye to Current NANC
FCC staff granted the North American Numbering Council another extension for its Numbering Administration Oversight Working Group, until Jan. 13, to file a technical requirements document for rules to establish a single, comprehensive database containing reassigned numbers information, posted Thursday…
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on docket 17-59. The database is meant to help consumers avoid unwanted calls intended for others. The WG must also file an adequate work plan on the topic by Sept. 30, and provide recommendations for a fee structure and pricing for users of the database by Feb. 13. Outgoing NANC Chair Travis Kavulla, of the R Street Institute, announced the extension Thursday at the last meeting of the current council, which is expected to be rechartered by Wednesday (see 1908210010). FCC Chairman Ajit Pai thanked Kavulla and the other NANC members for advising on matters such as number portability, robocalls and a proposed three-digit national suicide hotline. "NANC has punched above its weight," Pai said. NANC adopted now an August report from the Interoperable Video Calling group recommending that the council and the FCC identify experts who could suggest existing numbering databases and commercially available interoperability databases so the next WG can evaluate them (see 1906200025).