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Scope and Purpose

This document specifies guidelines and procedures that address the Service Provider Disconnected Numbers Report. Service Providers¹ (SPs) are required to submit the Service Provider Disconnected Numbers Report to provide permanently disconnected number data for numbering resources from geographic numbering plan area (NPA) codes in the United States and its territories.²

The Service Provider Disconnected Numbers Report addresses the need to collect permanently disconnected number data in a single database, the Reassigned Numbers Database (RND). This RND provides valuable information to a User (or User Agent) of the RND by providing the ability to query the database to validate whether a telephone number has the potential to have been reassigned from the consumer the User intends to reach, thus allowing the User to avoid calling a consumer with a reassigned number who may not wish to receive the call.³

These guidelines apply to SPs that have been allocated or have ported in geographic numbering resources from geographic NPAs in the United States and its territories. These guidelines do not apply to SPs allocated geographic number resources from geographic NPAs from other NANP countries, and do not apply to SPs allocated non-geographic 5XX-NXX numbering resources. Finally, these guidelines do not apply to SPs that are Responsible Organizations (RespOrgs) assigned Toll Free Numbers.⁴ Although the RND contains permanently disconnected number data for toll free numbers, the Toll Free Number Administrator (TFNA) has sole responsibility for the reporting of toll free disconnected number data to the RND,⁵ and such reporting is outside the scope of these guidelines.

¹ Throughout this document, references to Service Providers (SPs) includes their Service Provider Agents as applicable.

² See ¶3 and ¶11 in FCC 18-177, adopted December 12, 2018. See also 47 CFR §64.1200 (l).

³ See FCC 18-177, ¶3.

⁴ Not all RespOrgs are SPs.

⁵ See FCC 18-177, ¶23