PUBLIC NOTICE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 1919 M STREET, N.W WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554 News Media Information (202) 418-0500. Internet Anonymous FTP site: ftp.fcc.gov February 14, 1996 FCC Announces Next Meeting to Discuss Implementation of Toll Free 888 Database The FCC will hold the fifteenth in a series of meetings with the industry to track the deployment of the new toll free 888 area code. These meetings are part of the Commission's overall plan to conserve use of the existing toll free 800 numbers and smooth the transition to the new toll free 888 numbers. This meeting will be held on Wednesday February 21, 1996 and will begin at 9:00 a.m. The meeting is open to the public and will be held at Bellcore, Sixth floor, Room B1- B2, 2101 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. A tentative agenda meeting is attached. If you are giving a presentation, please bring 60 copies. This meeting will address any implementation issues that may arise during the deployment of the 888 database. There will be reports from various industry segments, including local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers and switch vendors. Future meetings will continue to be held approximately every two weeks throughout planning for 888 deployment. Documents from these meetings will be available for public viewing the day after each meeting at the FCC, 2025 M Street, N.W., Room 6010, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Copies of these documents are available from the Commission's copy contractor, ITS, 202/857-3800. The FCC is holding these meetings as part of its overall effort to smooth the transition from the existing toll free 800 number system to the new toll free 888 system. The FCC continues to work with the 800 service provider industry to conserve the existing 800 numbers and to ensure the efficient use of these resources. Questions about this meeting should be directed to Mary De Luca at (202) 418-2334. -FCC- 888 Implementation Meeting February 21, 1996 Tentative Agenda 1. 9:00 to 9:10 Updated Status of 800 Numbers by Michael Wade, President, Database Service Management, Inc. (DSMI) 2. 9:10 to 9:15 Update from the RBOC 888 Implementation by the National 800 Product Team 3. 9:15 to 9:20 Update from the Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF) by Don Werner, Assistant Moderator 4. 9:20 to 9:30 888 Readiness Update - Vendors Bellcore (SCP), Nortel, Siemens, Lucent Technologies 5. 9:30 to 9:45 888 Readiness Update - Trade Associations USTA, APCC 6. 9:45 to 10:00 888 Readiness Update from Interexchange Carriers MCI, Sprint, AT&T, LCI, LDDS WorldCom, CompTel 7. 10:00 to 10:10 888 Readiness Update from Large Local Exchange Carriers United, SNET, Cincinnati Bell, GTE 8. 10:10 to 10:30 Updated Readiness Report from Regional Bell Operating Companies Pacific Bell, Ameritech, SBC, Bell Atlantic, US West, NYNEX, BellSouth 9. 10:30Wrap-up Summary of Action Items from 888 implementation Meeting Belcore Me eting Room February 7 , 1996 1. Network Services Division- Mary De Luca Contact the Private Payphone Association for information on the ability of private payphones to support toll free 888 numbers by March 1, 1996. 2. SNAC/ National Product Team Verify that the Caribbean Administrations did not want any 888 NXX's reserved for their toll free service.