NPA 250-403-780 RELIEF IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ______________________________________________________________________ DATE of RPC Consensus: July 24, 2007 ______________________________________________________________________ TITLE: Relief Implementation Plan (RIP) for NPAs 250, 403 and 780 DATE: July 26, 2007 ______________________________________________________________________ DISTRIBUTION: CRTC, NPA 250, 403 & 780 Relief Planning Committees ISSUED BY: NPA 250, 403 & 780 Relief Planning Committees (RPCs) Chair: Glenn Pilley Telephone: 613-563-7242 Facsimile: 613-563-9293 E-mail:
[email protected] Address: CNA – SAIC Canada Suite 1516 - 60 Queen Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 5Y7 ______________________________________________________________________ Relief Implementation Plan for NPAs 250-403-780 July 26, 2007 1. INTRODUCTION This Relief Implementation Plan (RIP) was developed in accordance with the Canadian NPA Relief Planning Guidelines. This document contains a set of industry-level activities and deliverables established by the Relief Planning Committees (RPCs) that are required to provide relief to the exhausting NPA 250 (Vancouver Island and Mainland of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland), NPA 403 (Southern Alberta), and NPA 780 (Northern Alberta). NPA 250 (also called an area code) consists of 273 Exchange Areas located in BC outside the Lower Mainland which is served by NPA 604/778. NPA 250 includes the rapidly growing exchanges of Victoria, Nanaimo, Parksville, Campbell River, Comox, Duncan, Port Hardy and Saanich, located on Vancouver Island, and Kelowna, North and South Kamloops, Prince George, Vernon, Penticton, Fort St. John, Nelson, Prince Rupert and Quesnel, located on the mainland. NPA 403 consists of 142 Exchange Areas located in the southern part of Alberta, including the rapidly growing Exchange Areas of Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Banff, and High River.