diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/BasicTracer.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/BasicTracer.ts
index bf8d0d1a286..5dc04d7775e 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/BasicTracer.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/BasicTracer.ts
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ import {
   ALWAYS_SAMPLER,
   BinaryTraceContext,
   HttpTraceContext,
-  NOOP_SPAN,
   randomTraceId,
   isValid,
   randomSpanId,
+  NoRecordingSpan,
 } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 import {
   BinaryFormat,
@@ -79,9 +79,7 @@ export class BasicTracer implements types.Tracer {
     const spanContext = { traceId, spanId, traceOptions, traceState };
 
     if (!samplingDecision) {
-      // TODO: propagate SpanContext, for more information see
-      // https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/99#issuecomment-513325536
-      return NOOP_SPAN;
+      return new NoRecordingSpan(spanContext);
     }
 
     const span = new Span(
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/BasicTracer.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/BasicTracer.test.ts
index 5643713b5bb..baa2a037593 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/BasicTracer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/BasicTracer.test.ts
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ import {
   BinaryTraceContext,
   HttpTraceContext,
   NEVER_SAMPLER,
-  NOOP_SPAN,
   NoopLogger,
   TraceState,
+  NoRecordingSpan,
 } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 import { BasicTracer } from '../src/BasicTracer';
 import { NoopScopeManager } from '@opentelemetry/scope-base';
@@ -153,13 +153,18 @@ describe('BasicTracer', () => {
       assert.deepStrictEqual(context.traceState, undefined);
     });
 
-    it('should return a default span with no sampling', () => {
+    it('should return a no recording span when never sampling', () => {
       const tracer = new BasicTracer({
         sampler: NEVER_SAMPLER,
         scopeManager: new NoopScopeManager(),
       });
       const span = tracer.startSpan('my-span');
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(span, NOOP_SPAN);
+      assert.ok(span instanceof NoRecordingSpan);
+      const context = span.context();
+      assert.ok(context.traceId.match(/[a-f0-9]{32}/));
+      assert.ok(context.spanId.match(/[a-f0-9]{16}/));
+      assert.strictEqual(context.traceOptions, TraceOptions.UNSAMPLED);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(context.traceState, undefined);
     });
 
     // @todo: implement
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/index.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/index.ts
index b7c48af6d03..e64f54dcfb0 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/index.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export * from './trace/globaltracer-utils';
 export * from './trace/instrumentation/BasePlugin';
 export * from './trace/NoopSpan';
 export * from './trace/NoopTracer';
+export * from './trace/NoRecordingSpan';
 export * from './trace/sampler/ProbabilitySampler';
 export * from './trace/spancontext-utils';
 export * from './trace/TracerDelegate';