Findings of Fact

1. Certain measures relating to the implementation of the cost recovery process for number pooling as adopted in D.00-07-052 require clarification.

2. In order to compute the requisite information required to bill individual carriers for number pooling administration costs pursuant to D.00-07-052, the NeuStar personnel employed in the capacity of PA would need access to confidential number utilization information that is currently restricted to NeuStar personnel employed in the capacity of number utilization consultant.

3. The currently executed Number Utilization Agreement prohibits NeuStar from disclosing confidential utilization information to any third party without Commission permission.

4. Pro ration of shared costs based on total thousand blocks held by carriers (rather than numbers utilized by customers) would avoid the need to divulge confidential carrier-specific utilization data since the number blocks assigned to each carrier is not confidential, but is publicly available information.

5. NeuStar seeks to modify D.00-07-052 to permit carriers' billing credits to be applied toward future billable amounts incurred by carriers within three months.

6. Under the current Pooling Agreements, NeuStar bills certain Direct Fees to carriers rather than prorating such charges based on each carrier's respective share of assigned telephone numbers used in service.