North American Numbering Council
(NANC)
Billing & Collection
Working Group
(B&C WG)
September 18, 2013
Co-Chairs:
Tim Decker, Verizon
Rosemary Emmer, Sprint Nextel
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.
September 18, 2013
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Current Activities/Discussion Topics
• Monthly Billing and Collections Oversight
• Monthly Evaluation of Deliverables
• Red Light Rule Process
• B&C Agent Contract
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Red Light Rule
• The Red Light Rule process was updated in 2012, has been
implemented for a year. The B&C Agent does not send the overdue
invoices to the FCC as was the previous process. The B&C Agent
now provides the updates to the red light system directly on a daily
basis. Now instead of the FCC having to collect the funds and send
to the B&C Agent, the funds are collected directly by the B&C Agent.
The process is streamlined now and working well.
• Note that once in the red light process, access to numbering
resources is blocked. This new automated process means delay in
provider’s processes for payment could put them in the red light
process sooner.
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Contract Renewal
• The contract expired October 1, 2009. Welch LLP received an 8
month interim contract which includes a 2 1/2 month transition which
will cover the period from April 1, 2013 to November 30, 2013.
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History of
NANP Fund Size and Contribution Factor
History of Past Budgets and Contribution Factors
March 2000
to
July 2001
June 2001
to
(revised)
June 2002
Contribution Factor
Final/Revised #
Original
0.000043
0.0000577
Per Budget
Total budgeted expenditures 12,630,500
**
International contribution
211,563
US contributions
12,418,937
Surplus used
NA
Surplus kept
NA
0.000043
0.000043
14,783,140
166,620
9,780,878
4,835,643
NA
July 2003
July 2002
to
July 2004
to
June 2004
to
June 2003 (revised) June 2005
0.000043
0.000043
13,737,340
173,694
10,313,646
3,250,000
4,434,187
0.000021
0.000036
9,821,530
114,205
4,902,967
4,804,358
4,000,000
0.000021
0.000021
7,026,013
80,468
4,920,418
2,025,127
4,248,064
July 2005
to
June 2006
0.0000052
0.0000052
6,903,158
84,050
1,127,108
5,692,000
-
July 2006
to
June 2007
0.000021
0.000021
6,922,608
83,238
4,876,926
1,966,444
-
July 2007
to
June 2008
July 2008
to
June 2009
July 2009 July 2010 July 2011
to
to
to
June 2010 June 2011 June 2012
0.0000193
0.0000193
0.0000165 0.0000107 0.0000181
0.0000165 0.0000107 0.0000181
6,605,140
84,821
4,530,185
1,990,084
-
5,508,944
82,384
1,531,477
1,198,963
5,348,089
85,415
2,487,497
2,775,177
-
5,497,882
96,439
4,034,718
1,366,725
-
July 2012 July 2013
to
to
June 2013 June 2014
0.000022 0.0000254 0.0000302
0.000022 0.0000254 0.0000302
5,857,267
94,944
4,620,882
1,141,441
-
6,187,045
94,923
5,139,392
952,730
-
6,442,662
128,592
6,314,070
453,782
-
** includes contingency allowance
# Final Factor reflects "Revised" factor if different from Original
Source: Factors and amounts compiled by Welch LLP
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B&C WG Membership
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AT&T
Cox
Sprint
CenturyLink
Verizon
T-Mobile
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Future Meetings/Contact Information
Tuesday,
October 22, 2013
Tuesday,
November 19, 2013
Contact the Co-Chairs for complete meeting or conference call details
[email protected] or [email protected]
B&C WG meeting notes and documents are posted at:
nanc-chair.org
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