Illinois Commerce Commission - LNP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

February 19, 1997

160 N. LaSalle, Room 808

Chicago, Illinois

Introductions by all present.

Brent Struthers notified the team that Jake Jennings, ICC Representative, is leaving the ICC and joining the FCC in Washington, D.C. Jake will be on the FCC policy staff working on the checklist for all incumbents. If you know Jake, give him a call and wish him well in his new assignment.

Brent also decided that going forward minutes will be taken by company representatives in alphabetical order. Therefore, Larry Vasquez, AT&T, volunteered to take this meetings minutes. Ameritech will be next and so on.

Subcommittee Reports

Cost Recovery (Brent Struthers) - An interim cost allocation plan has been written and distributed to all appropriate members. John McClusky (MFS) is still reviewing the plan. TCG had provided the subcommittee with comments/revisions. The committee would like to finalize the plan by June/July timeframe. The interim plan is needed because it is thought that the FCC will not have a cost recovery Order out until at least late April. Even when the FCC issues an Order it will probably include broad guidelines and kick the specifics down to the states. Under this scenario, State Commissions will probably not have enough time to hold hearings and come out with the final rules on cost recovery until some time after LNP implementation.

Roger Marshall stated that the interim agreement had a true-up clause that should address TCGs concerns.

Ruth Durbin (MFS) stated that she had not reviewed the interim agreement.

Phil Felice (Sprint/Centel) had reviewed the proposed revisions with TCG. He will talk with Ed Gould at TCG and attempt to get closure on the language.

Brent reinforced that he needs a signed agreement, by all parties, in order to move forward. Brent will get a copy of the interim agreement to Ruth Durbin. Phil will get closure with TCG by Friday, February 28, 1997. We should be in a position to finalize during the next steering meeting.

NPAC/SMS (Brent Struthers) - Brent filled in for Donna. She is in a three-day meeting in Florida to discuss NPAC Internal Verification and Testing (NIVT). Also, methods and procedures on how will the NPAC support the Service Providers and to finalize the rollout schedule for Phase I. The schedule is as follows:

PHASE START COMPLETE

NPAC Interoperability Testing 5-11-97

NPAC Internal Verification Test (NIVT)

Lockheed - ESI 4-15-97 5-12-97

Initial Turn-up Testing (AT&T only) 5-12-97 7-9-97

General Turn-up Testing (ALL Sps) 5-19-97 7-9-97

Database Cleanup and Grooming 7-9-97 7-23-97

FCC Field Trial 7-24-97 9-26-97

Implementation 9-29-97

Report to FCC 10-17-97

Woody Traylor (MCI) recommended that the team issue a status report to the FCC at regular intervals and then the final report in October.

Barry Bishop said there will be weekly status reports that we could share with the FCC.

Woody also stated that he received a call from the Perot team outlining their concern that the Florida meeting was "closed" to Perot. Brent stated that his position is that all meetings be "open" to all interested parties. Brent will check on whether proprietary information will be disclosed/discussed by Lockheed, in the meeting, that would prevent Perot from being invited. Brent is taking the issue off-line with Perot and other involved parties.

LLC/Contract Team (Roger Marshall) - Roger stated the discussions were going very well in this sub-committee. The only outstanding issues were in regards to the insurance and the percentage of ownership for voting rights. The current cap is 10% ownership. This affects Comcast, TCI, and Cox as long as TCG is a member of the LLC. All three companies own greater than 10% of TCG. The Comcast attorney will get back to the subcommittee regarding alternate wording/verbage.

Dan Noorani stated that the voting rights issue is also being worked in on other regions such as Western and South Eastern. Phil Felice to get the exact language used in the South Eastern region to Roger for review.

Conference call March 20th at 10:00

All insurance questions have been answered. Current insurance coverage is as follows:

Umbrella Policy 5M

Commercial General Liability 1-2 M

Non-owned & Hired Auto Liability 1-2M

Directors & Officer Liability 10M

Next Meeting at MFS HQ in Oak Brook, Illinois on April 10, 1997.

Operator Services (Irene Shumada) On hold, waiting for Phase II planning

Rating and Billing (Dan Noorani for Judy Evans) - Rating & Billing had approached both subcommittees (INC & NIIF) of the Carrier Liaison Committee to present the workshops proposal on OCN/SPID. The preferred forum would be INC. R&B has no issue with the 800 LNP clarification. The issue has been

forwarded to switching.

LNP/SCP (Wayne Heinmiller) - Subcommittee currently working on cleaning up the final document. No technical issues exist. The subcommittee is interfacing with the Testing Team regarding SCPs/SS7.

Conference call on Tuesday, February 25. Face-to-face meeting tentatively scheduled on April 8th .

Switching (Brian Baldwin) - Team reviewed changes and incorporated the changes into the next publication. Current changes updated as of 2/17/97.

Phase II (Brian Baldwin) - Brian presented the outputs of the Phase II planning meeting held on February, 13, 1997. The following 6 items were discussed ( from Brian's presentation/handout) as follows:

1)Billing & Switching Enhancements

*Members to identify all potential enhancements

*Desirability/demand to be assessed by the entire team

*Individual members to consult with vendors for pricing and availability

2)Expansion to areas outside of the Top 100 MSAs

*Await decision of FCC Recon Order to determine path going forward

*Brent is putting out memo to all certificated carriers regarding demand (should go out within the next month)

3)Wireless LNP

*Two Phases:

1) 12/98 access to LNP databases

2) 6/99 wireless to wireless LNP

*Wait for CTIA white paper to assess impact on wireline LNP

4)Geographic LNP

*Assess the interest/demand for location portability by obtainingdemographic information on customer moves

5)Service Portability

*No immediate need to address wireline to wireless or vice-versa

*Portability for data services addressed under item #1

6)Number pooling/code relief

*Wait for recommendation from ad hoc CLC committee to determine the path going forward

Regarding issue # 4 of above. Penn Pfaust (AT&T) recommended that we get demographic data on the historical out and in orders trend. More specifically, when a residential or business customer moves, do they move within the same prefix, same MSA, same LATA, etc. This will help us determine demand for location portability. Numerous parties (AT&T, Sprint, MCI, MFS, Ameritech, ICC, and others?) are working on producing data

Regarding issue # 5 of above. Woody Traylor (MCI) stated that he thought wireless to wireline was already a part of Phase I. Brian said no according to 95-116. Brian will check on the exact wording for clarification. Woody said we could also check with the NANC team during the meeting next week. Brian to get Roger 95-116 documentation/information for meeting.

Regarding # 6 of above. Brent expressed his desire to go ahead in Illinois, but did not ask the LNP workshop to address the issue at this time. He stated that three more area codes within the Chicago MSA are forecasted to exhaust within the next three years. He would like to address number conservation issues in some manner, even if only for Illinois, and will continue to work outside the LNP process.

Phase II meeting scheduled after the Steering Committee meeting on March 19, 1997. Larry Vasquez (AT&T) volunteered to be Co-Chair with Brian Baldwin (Ameritech). All committee members are to bring any concerns regarding item # 1 of above.

Test Team (Barry Bishop) - Barry Bishop outlined the critical dates from the Test Plan Summary (handout). The critical dates are as follows:

9/26/97 Complete FCC test report for submission

9/29/97 Ready to Port date

10/17/97 Final Report due to FCC

Brent Struthers is revising the test plan Executive Summary and Cover Letter. He has the disks and any suggested updates can be sent directly to Brent or to Bill Belshaw, the original author.

Barry raised an issue on whether we make available our test plan to anyone in the world. All eyes are on Illinois and do we place the plan on ported.com?!?!?!?!?!

Brent stated that all 6 Carriers need to notify the ICC and FCC if they see any of their dates slipping!!!

Dan Noorani will be sending a letter to the FCC (signed by all 6 Carriers and reviewed by all) regarding the Illinois test plan status. That is when we will notify the FCC that we plan on sending them weekly updates as the trial proceeds. The letter is to notify the FCC that our dates slipped due to the NANC changes and the additional software work needed to be done by Lockheed.

Dan will make available a final draft of the letter, to all, prior to a conference call on Friday, February 21st , from 2:00 to 3:00.

Barry Bishop reviewed the Dick Dowd plan (handout). An affidavit that will be sent to the NPAC will be reviewed and approved by the LLC Committee.

Woody Traylor recommended that if a carrier was not ready as planned. That they should be put at the end of the test list. Everyone seemed to agree. Barry stated that MFS won't be on-line at the beginning of the test and would catch up on the testing procedures when their switch was ready.

Brent stated that we need a good definition of Choke Network (see handout) so the Commerce Commission could readily understand in layman's terms. Barry said he would work on it.

Operations (Barry Bishop) - Per Barry all of the vendors are to respond to the implementation plan for the next meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for March 11, 1997 at the 350 Orleans location in room 493.

Jim Joerger brought up the possibility of testing going more quickly than expected and what would happen with the time saved in testing. Would implementation be moved up? We all hope that is the case ,but, realistically, we will probably need every man-hour reserved for testing. Brent brought up that some carriers might want the extra time to re-test to ensure accuracy. Woody stated that re-testing should be part of the plan.

Barry handed out the minutes from the Operations meeting. The outstanding issues are around the availability of 10-digit triggers. 10-digit triggers may not be available from everyone on day one. Also, how do we test the process flows?

911 Subcommittee (Barry Bishop) - Lots of issues too numerous to list from the past 911 meetings. However, it was decided that when a consumer gets ported, their number would NOT be deleted from the database. When the ADD occurs, the data will be overwritten. This will protect us all during the transition period from one vendor to the next.

Next Meeting March 18th, 350 Orleans, room 463.

Miscellaneous - Barry Bishop stated that the first Michigan LNP Implementation was held in Detroit, MI on February 13, 1997. Larry Vasquez volunteered to be the Chairperson for the Committee. Next Meeting in Chicago on March 14th, 350 Orleans, Room 438.

The first Wisconsin LNP meeting was held on February 18th, in Madison, WI. Barry said that many of the small independent LECs did not quite understand LNP and the issues around portability. Barry offered to do an overview of LNP on April 2nd the day before the next meeting on April 3rd.

Regulatory Update (Brent Struthers) - Brent's update as follow:

Report to NANC regarding the porting of non-working numbers Nortel may still have some problems......still working on

Cascading SMSs....... Still working on. Need to check on re-sale (e.g. Luminet)

FCC asking NANC to fix NPAC system....is this realistic?

Discussions around the St. Louis MSA- Brent stated that he had been approached by some ILECs to ask CLECs to prove that they actually intended to provide facilities based service to some of the smaller switches requested. Brent repeated that under the current FCC order, the ICC may not have the authority to require the CLECs to prove demand for any of the offices in the top 100 MSAs.

Joe Murphy clarified that some of the switches requested were on the MSA border and served by only a handful of residential customers in the MSA. Joe's firm which represents some of the smaller ILECs was requesting that the requesting CLECs voluntarily check their lists to see if some of the offices had been inadvertently placed on the list. At this point, the only avenue for these ILECs is to seek exemption form the ICC based on the rural status (i.e. 2% rule).

Next 4 Steering Committee Meetings as follows:

March 19th

April 24th

May 22nd

June 19th