Numbering Advisory Services

Revising national Numbering Policies and numbering/dialing plans is a prime example of the formidable challenges regulators face today. Meeting these challenges requires a systematic approach supported by up-to-date and accurate information in order to avoid potential service disruptions and the high costs associated with re-working policy decisions.

With the help of our Numbering Services experts you can:

• Ensure compliance with regulatory directives
• Minimize risks and service disruptions
• Understand business and technology impact of plans
• Speed planning process and implementation of new policies
• Administer the National Numbering Plan more cost-effectively

Regulatory authorities worldwide are mandating that telecommunications markets be open to competition. While specific mandates and market conditions may differ, each country must have a National Numbering Plan (NNP) that requires:

• A Numbering Policy that establishes the legal, legislative and regulatory basis for competition
• Amendment of a country's existing NNP to accommodate the new Numbering Policy as well as new services, technologies, and billing and tariff methods
• Establishment of a fair and neutral National Numbering Administrator

Our knowledgeable regulatory specialists and telecommunications experts can work with network operators and service providers around the globe to help:

• Ensure that a new Numbering Policy has the right functionality and capacity, and that adequate capacity is available to competing service providers for geographic and non-geographic applications, mobility services, and any special or abbreviated numbering or dialing formats
• Qualify that numbering and dialing plans are able to support the evolution of telecommunications and the competitive criteria established by national regulatory policy
• Examine existing numbering allocations and assignments and recommend a forward-looking plan that incorporates number resource optimization and conservation. We can also include service type, geographic and service provider identification features.
• Facilitate the transition to a number plan administrator so that the assignment of telecommunications numbering resources can be administered in an efficient and equal basis for all service providers and operators
• Identify the functions associated with a numbering resource administrative unit and design the procedures for conducting those functions, as well as develop, train and implement a numbering resource administrative unit
• Provide draft rules for number administration pursuant to Regulatory Directives