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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  04-  346 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of 
 Numbering  Resource  Optimization 
 Petition  for  Extension  of  Time  of  the  Thousands-  Block  Number  Pooling 
 Implementation  Deadline 


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 CC  Docket  No.  99-  200 


 ORDER 
 Adopted:  February  10,  2004  Released:  February  11,  2004 
 By  the  Assistant  Chief,  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division: 
 1.  On  June  10,  2003,  Verizon  Wireless  Puerto  Rico  (Verizon  Wireless),  a  division  of  Puerto  Rico  Telephone  Company,  filed  a  petition  requesting  the  Commission  to  extend,  for  a 
 limited  period  of  time,  the  thousands-  blocks  number  pooling  deadline  in  the  San  Juan—  Caguas—  Arecibo,  Puerto  Rico  Combined  Metropolitan  Statistical  Area.  1 


 2.  On  July  2,  2003,  Verizon  Wireless  filed  a  motion  to  withdraw  its  Petition.  2  According  to  Verizon  Wireless,  the  Numbering  Resource  Optimization  Fourth  Report  and 
 Order,  3  released  on  June  18,  2003,  exempted  Tier  III  wireless  carriers  from  pooling  until  they  received  a  request  for  local  number  portability,  thereby  rendering  Verizon  Wireless’  petition 
 moot. 
 3.  ACCORDINGLY,  IT  IS  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  the  authority  delegated  under  sections  0.91  and  0.291  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.91,  0.291,  that  the  request  to 


 withdraw  the  above-  captioned  Petition  is  GRANTED. 


 1  Petition  for  Extension  of  Time  of  the  Thousands-  Block  Number  Pooling  Implementation  Date,  CC  Docket  No.  99- 
 200  (filed  June  10,  2003)  (Petition). 
 2  Withdrawal  of  Petition,  CC  Docket  No.  99-  200  (filed  July  2,  2003). 


 3  See  Numbering  Resource  Optimization,  Fourth  Report  and  Order  in  CC  Docket  No.  99-  200  and  CC  Docket  No. 
 95-  116,  and  Fourth  Further  Notice  of  Proposed  Rulemaking  in  CC  Docket  No.  99-  200,  FCC  03-  126,  (rel.  June  18,  2003)  (Numbering  Resource  Optimization  Fourth  Report  and  Order). 
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 4.  IT  IS  FURTHER  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  sections  0.91  and  0.291  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.91,  0.291,  that  the  above-  captioned  Petition  IS  DISMISSED 
 WITHOUT  PREJUDICE. 
 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Cheryl  L.  Callahan  Assistant  Division  Chief 
 Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division  Wireline  Competition  Bureau 
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