Telephone Numbering

PURPOSE: The commission has certain authority over telephone numbering resources as provided by FCC rules, FCC Order DA 001616 released July 20, 2000 and FCC Order 06-14 released February 24, 2006. This rule identifies provisions relating to the commission’s oversight of telephone resources within Missouri. (1) A carrier that requests the commission overturn a decision of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) or the Thousands-Block Pooling Administrator (PA) to deny a carrier’s request for additional numbering resources shall file an application with the commission which includes the following: (A) A Months-to-Exhaust Worksheet that provides utilization by rate center for the preceding six (6) months and projected monthly utilization for the next twelve (12) months; (B) The carrier’s current numbering resource utilization level, FCC Form U1 of Form 502, for the rate center in which it is seeking growth numbering resources; (C) A copy of the carrier’s original request to NANPA or the PA, a copy of the carrier’s Part 1a, a copy of the NANPA or PA response/confirmation Part 3; and (D) A demonstration that the carrier has a verifiable need for numbering resources and has exhausted all other available remedies designed to conserve numbering resources (examples include, but are not limited to, a copy of the customer request detailing the specific need for telephone numbers and the reason the carrier cannot meet the specific customer request). (2) Upon request by the commission staff, any carrier that is assigned or has requested numbering resources from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator or the Thousands-Block Pooling Administrator shall provide certain information at the commission’s Jefferson City office to ensure compliance with Federal Communications Commission numbering rules and to monitor and verify the validity and accuracy of carrier utilization data. Such information includes, but is not limited to, all number utilization, number utilization forecast, and historical trend documentation and applications. AUTHORITY: sections 386.040, 386.250, 386.310, 392.450, and 392.461, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 240-28.016. Original rule filed April 12, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. Moved to 20 CSR 4240-28.016, effective Aug. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 386.040, RSMo 1939; 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996; 386.310, RSMo 1939, amended 1979, 1989, 1996; 392.450, RSMo 1987, amended 1996, 2008; and 392.461, RSMo 2011, amended 2013, 2014.