Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. Windstream’s Petition regarding the NANPA’s denial of its application for assignment of additional numbering resources is granted. 2. The decision of the NANPA denying Windstream’s request for assignment of an NXX in the Berea rate center is hereby overturned. 3. The NANPA shall assign Windstream an available NXX in the Berea rate center (859-NXX). 4. The numbering resources considered in this Order are to be assigned for the sole use of serving Windstream’s need for an LRN for deployment of a new packet switch in connection with a Broadband Stimulus project in the Berea rate center. Windstream shall retain only a single thousands block of numbers from the new NXX. The remaining nine thousands blocks, not utilized by Windstream for LRN purposes, shall be returned to the pool of available numbers. If the numbering resources requested by Windstream are not needed to meet its service requirements, the associated numbering resources approved in this Order shall be returned to the NANPA. -

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Windstream Kentucky East, LLC's Petition for Commission Review and Reversal of a Decision of the North American Number Pooling Administration