- Geographic,
Non-Geographic & Personal Number Portability Report
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NTS
Focus Group Report
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CPS
- MNP
Slides
Geographic,
Non-Geographic & Personal Number Portability Report
1. Christmas
Opening hours have been agreed by the industry as per the schedule
below;
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2. The review
of the HLSD for GNP and NGNP continues. Operators are asked to
provide input to Chris Mitchell of BT (chris.a.mitchell@bt.com);
3. The group
is looking at the issues surrounding porting numbers that do not
work on a conveyance charge basis (internet for schools, FRIACO
etc) to
establish a method for making such numbers portable in a commercially
acceptable
way.
4. A meeting
has been held with Oftel to look at contingency arrangements where
customers have imported or exported numbers from/to telcos that
are wound up or
placed in receivership.
5. A review
of charging for Service Maintenance activities is under way. The
group is looking to establish "ground rules" for industry
to use as a basis for
setting up reciprocal arrangements.
6. A meeting
has been scheduled for the 30 October to review the interaction
of
LLU and GNP. Contact Lesa Green at Kingston for details (01924 888888).
7. Lesa Green
of Kingston is taking over as chair from Owen Watson.
NTS
Focus Group Report
The NTS Focus
Group has not met since the last OPF but a meeting is planned for
2 November 2001 to discuss Oftel's NTS Retail Uplift proposals contained
in the draft direction issued on 16 October and the ongoing activities
involving INCA and NTS Discounts. At this meeting the Chair will
be transferred to Cable & Wireless who have agreed with Oftel
and industry that ownership should lie with operators with Oftel's
continued involvement.
Carrier
Pre-Selection
Consumer
Group
Due to meet
on 13 November where a paper proposing the replacement of the reply
slip process will be presented by the Process Improvement Group
(PIG). At the last meeting, Consumer reps were quite clear that
they wanted measures in place pre-switchover to provide at least
the level of consumer protection provided by the reply slip. The
proposed process involves the use of customer postcode as a validation
against the CLI, together with a 10 day switchover period from acceptance
of the electronic order during which both the losing and gaining
service providers are required to contact the customer to confirm
the impending changes to their service. Alex Campbell of Oftel chairs
this group.
Process Improvement
Group
Met on 03 &
24 October. Work has continued on the replacement of the reply slip
process and consequential changes to other processes which are currently
in the pipeline, such as multi-CLI and reseller processes. A minimum
content for the operator letters has been agreed. A code of marketing
practice for CPS is also in draft. Deb Bristo of One.Tel continues
the good work in chairing this group.
Process Group
Met on 03 &
24 October. v8.0 of the E2E document is about to be released. It
has been updated to reinstate the 10 working day switchover period;
transaction trading has now been included. Much work is in hand
surrounding the new process to replace the reply slip process so
that design can be completed by BT and implementation achieved as
soon as practicable in the New Year. It will not be possible to
parallel-run both order handling systems, ie. with/without reply
slips, so all operators need to be satisfied as to the integrity
of the new process and their own capabilities before cut-over. Talks
have revived concerning possible bulk transfer processes. Martin
Romer of Telco has kindly stepped forward and offered to chair the
Process Group for 3 months - thanks, Martin.
IT Automation
Group
Work continues
to ensure that the IT documentation matches the E2E document. As
soon as v8.0 of the E2E is available, v8.0 of the IT Automation
document will be prepared and released. An interim document is available.
Reg Taylor of Energis has recently brought some order to this group,
but more industry resource is desperately required, especially bearing
in mind the significant changes to the ordering process being introduced
in the New Year with the replacement of the reply slip process.
Commercial
Group
Met on 16 October.
Forecasting processes for both traffic and transactions are being
reviewed. The commercial aspects of a possible bulk transfer process
are under consideration. A sub-group has met with Oftel on the issue
of inclusion of 192 within CPS and a consultation document is expected
PNO TTG
Has not met
for some time. We are seeking a new chair as there is still work
to be done.
Costs Group
Met on 16 October.
Consultation on the draft determination of Featurenet Transaction
Charges has closed, there was a joint operator response. Final determination
is awaited. Oftel has issued a Notice of Proposed Determination
of the ppm surcharge for CPS set-up costs, there was a joint operator
response. Amanda Murray of Thus checks the numbers and chairs the
meetings for this group.
Phase 2 Triallists
Group
Meets regularly.
The meeting on 28 September signed-off the trial and agreed the
move into pilot with 'live' CLIs and 'real' customers. One or two
issues have appeared but nothing major or launch threatening. Crunch-time
comes with the retail bill 'run' by BT to check that calls are being
correctly routed and billed by each party, this will be later in
November. Continued thanks to the triallist companies: One.Tel,
Your Communications, Energis & BT, together with Opal which
has helped with some additional testing and, Ian Earley of Thus
for chairing the group.
Summary
We are still
on schedule for sign-off of CPS Phase 2 launch at Commercial Group
on 11 December 2001.
Anyone wishing to go onto any of the e-mail circulation lists for
the above groups should contact regtemp@energis.co.uk specifying
which group list(s) you wish to join. More contributors always welcome.
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