From telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu Tue Jan 12 00:46:29 1993 Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU via TCP with SMTP id AA02647; Tue, 12 Jan 93 00:46:25 EST Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu id AA14163 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ptownson@gaak.lcs.mit.edu); Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:46:15 -0600 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:46:15 -0600 From: TELECOM Moderator Message-Id: <199301120546.AA14163@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: ptownson@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU Subject: Bellcore Public Documents Status: RO >From telecom Fri Jan 8 08:33:19 1993 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu id AA23180 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for \telecom); Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:33:16 -0600 Received: from att.att.com (att-out.att.com) by delta.eecs.nwu.edu with SMTP id AA13047 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:32:47 -0600 To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 08:31:03 CST From: varney@ihlpl.att.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Path: varney Subject: Bellcore NPA/NXX information Reply-To: Al Varney Organization: AT&T Distribution: na Message-Id: <1993Jan8.143043.14607@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> Lines: 118 Status: RO Patrick, Several folks have asked for information available in some form from Bellcore -- and my e-mail to them failed. Perhaps you could post this AND include it in FAQ or archive. Thanks. To Bob Larribeau at , asking for NPA/NXX information: Information about which LEC "owns" an NPA/NXX, and lots of other data you might want, is in several Bellcore "products". For example, the NPA-NXX V&H Coordinates Tape (primarily for billing) contains the OCN (Operating Company Number) for each NXX -- you can translate that to an LEC (or equivalent in Canada/Caribbean). To Richard Cox, who asked for information on the NPA/NXX activity guide: I tried to reply, but both and didn't work; SMTP says 'compulink.co.uk' is unknown. ----- So, I've attached a canned response I use for questions about Bellcore, but the telephone numbers correspond to the normal TR/TA document center. The NPA/NXX information is maintained by the (somewhat) separate Traffic Routing Administration (TRA) group, at +1 201 829 3071. To complicate matters, there are 3 PUBLIC documents published by Bellcore's document center, but maintained by the TRA. These are available by contacting the document center as described in the attachment. - FA20: "Telephone Area Code Directory (TACD) Microfiche" Contains all customer-dialable points in the North American Numbering Plan with the corresponding NPA. Issued monthly. $50 - TR-EOP-000093: "TACD Paper Report" As above, issued annually around September. Ordered by State and Locality. Carrier Identification Codes are included. - TR-OPT-001843: 800/900 List on Paper, giving company name and telephone contact for each NXX assigned with the 800 and 900 codes. Issued quarterly. [Call the document HOTLINE in the attachment for prices of paper documents.] For all other TRA "products", or information about on-line access to a database of routing data, contact the TRA Hotline at +1 201 829 3071, or write to: Traffic Routing Administration Bell Communications Research, Inc. 435 South Street, Room 1J321 Morristown, NJ 07962-1961 These non-public documents and on-line access require signing a "Terms and Conditions Agreement" before purchase. You should ask for a complete list of products and prices. Some of the documents do not include Canada. Some of the more "common-use" TRA documents are: - NPA-NXX Vertical and Horizontal Coordinates Tape (the "V&H Tape") is primarily for billing purposes, and lists (for each NXX) the type of NXX, major/minor V&H coordinates, LATA Code, the ROA, Time Zone, Place Name, OCN (TELCO) and indicators for IDDD and "Non-Dialable". - NPA/NXX Activity Guide lists all NPA/NXX codes schedules to be added, removed or "modified" (monthly). There's also an Active Code List that lists all NPA/NXX codes that aren't planned to be removed or "modified" for the next 6 months. - Local Exchange Routing Guide (LERG) contains information on all USA/Caribbean destinations, switching entities, Rate Centers and Localities, Tandem Homing information, operator service codes, 800/900 NXX assignments, etc. (3 1600 BPI tapes!!!) Mostly useful to IXCs and other TELCos. Good Luck, Al Varney varney@ihlpl.ih.att.com ------ (canned response follows:) ------------------- Bellcore TAs and other preliminary "advisories" are only available by writing: Bellcore Document Registrar 445 South Street - Room 2J-125 P. O. Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07962-1910 TRs and other "standard" documents can be ordered from: Bellcore Customer Service 60 New England Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854-4196 or by calling the document HOTLINE (menu-monster) at 1-800-521-CORE (1-800-521-2673). They take AMEX, VISA and MasterCharge, International Money Orders, and Checks on US Banks. If you don't have a document number handy, they can send you a catalog of technical documents. International calls are on +1 908 699 5800. (If you want to order a document, press 2 at the automated greeting. If you want to talk to a person about availability, prices, etc, press 4 at the automated greeting) FAX on (908) 699-5800. If you want to talk to the "pub" folks, or a technical person, the numbers/addresses are in the front of any TR (and the "Catalog"). Al Varney - the above represents my opinion, and not AT&T's.... (And I do wish Bellcore paid commissions for these referrals!)