National p-ANI
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- Monthly p-ANI Tip – July 2013
211 for VoIP and 511 for Wireless
p-ANI Assignment Practice
As a reminder, for new p-ANI requests, please specify whether
211 or 511 should be assigned in the
“p-ANI(s) (NXX-XXXX) assignment preference”
field provided on the Part 1 form. For the state of CT, please
specify the range set aside for your company in the “p-ANI(s)
(NXX-XXXX) assignment preference” field provided on the
Part 1 form.
This is at the request of the state of CA, the state of ME, the
state of NJ, and some existing 911 system service providers in
certain areas to have the RNA continue to assign 211 for VoIP
and 511 for wireless. The state of CT requests that carriers or
their agents request only ESRKs and ERSDs from the block(s) of
p-ANIs already set aside for that carrier.
We are providing this information to conform to existing
assignment practices, however, we recognize that this is not
conducive to number conservation. Upon consultation with the
FCC, we have ascertained that this assignment practice will not
be able to be continued in an NPA when either the 211 or 511 NXX
is depleted. Since carriers do not provide separate forecasts
for 211 and 511 (because it makes no difference in most
instances), we have no information that will reliably give us
much advance warning of such exhaust.
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