The FCC has full jurisdiction over the telephone numbering system in the United States. The Commission’s policies governing numbering are designed to promote competitive markets and ensure the efficient use of numbers.  Policies and activities include:

• Ensuring local number portability, which allows consumers to keep their existing phone  number when switching to a new carrier
• Ensuring access to number resources for all providers
• Extending the life of the 10-digit number system, known as the North American Numbering Plan, through thousands-block number pooling and other measures.
• Preventing premature exhaustion of numbers in an area code
• Overseeing allocation and management of toll-free numbers

03/07/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comments on the North American Numbering Plan Administration Technical Requirements. DA 08-490, Dockets 92-237 & 99-200. Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 03/21/08. Replies Due: 03/28/08.
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NANPA Techical Requirements:
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02/11/08
ORDER: Local Number Portability Porting Interval and Validation Requirements. Granted request from Embarq to waive until September 30, 2008, the deadline to comply with the Commission's declaratory ruling that the validation process for LNP requests should be based on no more than four fields. FCC 08-31, Dockets 95-116 & 07-244.
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02/25/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Request for Access to Carrier Data filed in Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecast Reports (NRUF). DA 08-451, CC Dockets 95-116 & 99-200. Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 03/03/08.
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11/08/07
REPORT & ORDER:Telephone Number requirements for IP-Enabled Services Providers. The Commission took a series of steps designed to ensure that consumers benefit from Local Number Portability (LNP). Docket 95-116, 04-36, 07-243. FCC No. 07-188.
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10/02/07
ORDER: Telephone Number Portability, Number Resources Optimization.Granted a temporary waiver of the Commission's rule for aging telephone numbers for residential customers in those areas declared as fire management assistance areas. DA 07-4112, CC Docket 95-116 & 99-200.
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04/26/07
ORDER: Numbering Resource Optimization, implementation of the local competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Telephone Number Portability. WC Dkt. No. 95-116,96-98 . FCC No. 07-65
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03/09/07
ORDER: Regarding Numbering Resource Optimization, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control's Petition for Delegated Authority To Implement Specialized Transitional Overlays, and of Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Petition for Clarification. CC Dkt. No 99-200. DA-07-1227.
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03/09/07
ORDER: Regarding Telephone Number Portability. Dismissed the Petition for Reconsideration as improperly filed and untimely. DA-07-1174.
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03/06/07
ORDER: Toll-Free Service Access Codes. CC Dkt NO. 95-155. DA 07-1053. Dismissed as moot the Petition for Dismissed as moot the petition for declaratory ruling.
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03/06/07
ORDER: Toll-Free Service Access Codes. CC Dkt NO. 95-155. DA 07-1063. Dismissed as moot the Petition for Emergency Relief and Expedited Action filed by the TFNC on 11/09/2000, and the Petition for Emergency Relief filed by TTFCC filed on 11/14/2000, both seeking to defer the release of the 855 toll free code DSMI.
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01/22/07
ORDER: Toll Free Service Access Codes. Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) grants, in part, the emergency request of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a component of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, to reassign five toll-free numbers utilized as suicide prevention hotlines to SAMHSA. CC Docket No. 95-155. DA 07-130.
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