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INDIANA NUMBER PORTABILITY TASK FORCE
CAUSE NUMBER 39983
OCTOBER 7, 1996
I. INTRODUCTION
The third meeting of the Indiana Number Portability Task force was held October 7, 1996 at 9:30
a.m. at the Commission's Office in Indianapolis. Terry Appenzeller from Ameritech chaired the
meeting.
II. MEETING ATTENDEES
A list of the meeting attendees is attached.
At the August 16, 1996 meeting a schedule had been agreed to for developing an implementation
plan. Based on this schedule, the new entrants were to identify to an independent consultant, the
exchanges that they want to enter by September 19, 1996. (Letter from Stan Sallier, dated
September 4, 1996.)
For a variety of reasons only one Competing LEC (AT&T) had submitted it's list of Exchanges as of this meeting. As this effort is critical for determining the cost of implementing LNP for the State of Indiana as requested by the IURC on November 8, 1996, the task force agreed to:
The following revised schedule was agreed to:
10/21/96: New entrants to identify by MSA, exchanges they want to enter. These lists
are to be sent to Brad Behounek, an independent third party consultant, at:
Brad Behounek
473 Broadview Avenue
Highland Park, IL, 60035
Telephone: 312.301.2723
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Brad is to compile a master list of Exchanges for each MSA, by combining requests from all
Competitive LECs. The requesting CLEC's name will NOT be identified. Brad will provide this list
to the IURC and incumbents on this date.
11/11/96
The incumbents, Ameritech, GTE, Sprint and any independents will compile a report with their
offices on the master list and the schedule for providing Number Portability.
Main Report Extension
Request:
The Task Force unanimously voted to have the two co-chairs (TerryAppenzeller, Ameritech and
Judy Evans, AT&T) sign the extension request on behalf of the Workshop.
Report Authors:
The following companies agreed to author the reports (preliminary progress report and main report, including a cost estimate).
Ameritech
GTE
Sprint
Smithville
AT&T
MFS
Preliminary Report
Schedule:
The first draft is due on October 25, 1996. Comments and Feedback is due November 1, 1996.
Submit the Preliminary Report to IURC.
NANC: Terry Appenzeller reported on the first NANC meeting October 1, 1996.
NANC is forming two (2) task forces.
The first NANC task force will counsel the FCC on how to move Number Administration from
Bellcore to a neutral third party. The Number Administration Task Force will have it's first meeting
on November 7, 1996. It is scheduled to complete it's work by January 1, 1999.
The second NANC Task Force will work on LNP Database Administration. This task force will
look at issues such as "Standardization of Interfaces" and "Regionalization of State Efforts". The
LNP Task Force is scheduled to complete it's work by May 1, 1997.
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NPAC/LLC: Roger Marshall presented a report on the Illinois NPAC selection of
Lockheed, as the vendor and the formation of the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). The
responses to some of the questions are outlined below.
The next meeting has been scheduled for November 8, 1996 at 10:30 a.m. in the Commission's
Law Library.
The following Illinois Workshop committees will make presentations at that meeting: