STATE OF MISSOURI

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 

 

 At a session of the Public Service

Commission held at its office in Jefferson City on the 29th day of July, 2015.

 

 

 

 

In the Matter of the Application of Southwestern  )

Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Missouri    )

For Review and Reversal of North American       )

Number Plan Thousands-Block Pooling               )    File No. IO-2016-0009

Administrator’s Decision to Withhold Numbering  )

Resources                                                         )                                   

 

 

ORDER OVERTURNING NORTH AMERICAN

NUMBERING PLAN ADMINISTRATOR’S DECISION

 

Issue Date: July 29, 2015                                         Effective Date: August 7, 2015

 

            On July 8, 2015, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, d/b/a AT&T Missouri, filed an Application and Motion for Expedited Treatment requesting that the Missouri Public Service Commission review and reverse a decision of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), NeuStar, Inc., to deny AT&T Missouri’s application to obtain a one thousands-block of numbers in the 816 NPA, the Leavenworth-Lansing rate center, the 816-NXX-7XXX range.  AT&T Missouri requires those numbers be a Special Service Code Type N.  The additional numbers are needed to meet the needs of SBC Internet Services, Inc., d/b/a AT&T Internet Services in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area.

          On July 22, 2015, the Staff of the Commission filed its Staff Recommendation.  No other applications to intervene, requests for hearing, or recommendations have been filed.   

          Staff explained that AT&T Missouri does have numbers available, but does not have the numbers that meet the requested criteria.  Staff believes AT&T Missouri has demonstrated a verifiable need for the numbers requested, and recommends the Commission grant AT&T Missouri’s request.

          The Commission has the authority to overturn NANPA’s decision to withhold numbering resources from a carrier pursuant to 47 C.F.R. §52.15(g)(4), which states in part, “The state commission also may overturn the NANPA’s decision to withhold numbering resources from the carrier based on its determination that the carrier has demonstrated a verifiable need for numbering resources and has exhausted all other available remedies.”

          Based on AT&T Missouri’s application and the Staff’s recommendation, the Commission finds that AT&T Missouri has demonstrated a verifiable need for numbering resources and has exhausted all other available remedies.  The Commission will overturn NANPA’s decision and approve AT&T Missouri’s request for one thousands-block in the 816 NPA as listed above.

          THE COMMISSION ORDERS THAT:

          1.   The North American Numbering Plan Administrator’s recent decision to withhold numbering resources from Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, d/b/a AT&T Missouri is overturned. 

          2.  Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, d/b/a AT&T Missouri’s request to receive one thousands-block, in the Leavenworth-Lansing, Missouri rate center, in the 816-NXX-7XXX range, with a Special Service Code Type N, is granted. The Commission further determines that if a new code is required to be opened for this occasion, AT&T Missouri shall utilize one block of one thousand numbers and return the remaining nine blocks to the Pooling Administrator.

          3.  This order shall become effective on August 7, 2015.

          4.  This file may be closed on August 8, 2015.

                                                                      BY THE COMMISSION

 

 

 

 

                                                                      Morris L. Woodruff

                                                                      Secretary

 

R. Kenney, Chm., Stoll, W. Kenney,

Hall, and Rupp, CC., concur.

 

Woodruff, Chief Regulatory Law Judge