NANC Billing & Collection Working Group Overview

1. North American Numbering Council(NANC)Billing & Collection Working Group (B&C WG) June 7, 2012 Co-Chairs: Tim Decker, Verizon Rosemary Emmer, Sprint Nextel

2. Mission Statement / Area of Responsibility • The Billing and Collection Agent Oversight Working Group (B&C WG) was formed by and reports to the North American Numbering Council (NANC) and is responsible for overseeing the performance of the functional requirements provided by the North American Numbering Plan Billing and Collection Agent (B&C Agent). • The B&C WG will investigate/review the performance of the B&C Agent and submit reports at each NANC meeting to fully inform NANC of the B&C Agent’s performance with respect to the functional requirements. • The B&C WG will identify and determine the financial impact, feasibility and/or the appropriateness of initiatives/activities that may need to be included in the budget.

3. Current Activities • Monthly Billing and Collections Oversight • Monthly Evaluation of Deliverables • Red Light Rule: The FCC’s Red Light process has been upgraded. It is now more automated therefore timeframes are even more critical and payments not received on time will invoke the Red light process. The provider can be restricted from obtaining additional numbering resources, and from advocating at the FCC. • Please make note that notification of Red Light Rule change is included on the backside of Invoices distributed by B&C Agent

4. Contribution Factor The B&C-WG has long held the practice, as stewards of the factor from a fiscal perspective, on behalf of the industry, and in concern for the continued availability and best management of number resources, to carefully control the impact of factor changes. Thus, in seeking the optimal solution for the 2012-2013 budget, with the least impact to industry participant’s budgets and run rates, and with careful management of the fiscal needs for covering the numbering administrator contractual funding requirements.

5. Contribution Factor Updates • March – NANCmtg: Funding factor of 0.000021. This option left the $750,000 in the surplus account which represents the contingency provision. • April - We revised the contribution factor to 0.0000217, to accommodate the difference between our draft budget from the overall revenue generated from the USAC forecast. • May – We revised the contribution factor again, to 0.0000254, based on the need to increase the contingency from $750,000 to 1.5M. THANK YOU NANC members for your quick turn around in providing company position.

6. History ofNANP Fund Size and Contribution Factor

7. 2012 Meeting Schedule

8. B&C WG Membership • AT&T • Cox • Sprint Nextel • Qwest • Verizon

9. Future Meetings/Contact Information Contact the Co-Chairs for complete meeting or conference call details Rosemary.Emmer@sprint.com or Timothy.Decker@verizon.com B&C WG meeting notes and documents are posted at: nanc-chair.org