Rechartered NANC Gives Status Updates on 833 Auction
The rechartered North American Numbering Council met for the first time Monday. The FCC is conducting a single-run auction Tuesday on toll-free 833 numbers in which the highest bidder wins but pays the second highest bid. "We're looking forward to…
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learning from the results," said Jordan Reth, NANC alternate designated federal officer. Winners will be announced "shortly," she said. The group wants to know if the single-round auction is the best design, and if not, hear suggestions for other designs. It will evaluate whether outreach was effective, Reth said, and ask participants to evaluate application requirements. It wants to evaluate upfront payment mechanisms that screen for "sincere offers," she said. The Toll Free Modernization Working Group is tasked with sending a report within six months of release of auction results to NANC, 30 days before a vote to send the document to the FCC, Reth said. Wireline Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics Auctions Division posted letters in Monday's Daily Digest to two toll-free 833 number auction applicants (here and here), explaining why they aren't qualified. The FCC also asked the Interoperable Video Calling WG for recommendations on a database approach to addressing interoperability for video phone services, after the last NANC couldn't reach consensus (see 1909120047). The report should include performance standards and funding options, Reth said now. It's due to NANC by June 28, the FCC by July 29. NANC's charter ends Sept. 16, 2021. Its next meetings are conference calls Jan. 13 and Feb. 13. NANC is taking nominations for WGs through Dec. 26 in docket 92-237.