ATIS Committee Urges FCC Bureau To Revise Toll-Free Number Coding Process
An Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions panel asked the FCC Wireline Bureau to revise its methodology for toll-free number codings. The ATIS System Number Administrative Committee said it reached consensus on various recommendations, including that the schedule for new toll-free…
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code openings be based on the expected number of months until code exhaustion, rather than the percentage of numbers in use for open codes. In a filing Wednesday in docket 95-155, the committee also proposed the bureau: (1) not allow the date of the code opening to be changed once it's set, since various parties rely on that date, (2) institute rationing rules when predictions indicate number utilization is occurring faster than expected, (3) make one new toll-free code available at a time and (4) limit each "Responsible Organization" group (including affiliates of each other) to reserving 100 numbers per day during the first 20 days of a new code opening.