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