Local number portability (LNP) administrator Neustar in letter to...

number ports that would result from wireless LNP implementation, now set for Nov. 24. CTIA said it had “serious concerns” about ability of NPAC to handle stepped-up port volumes after wireless LNP rolled out, saying LNP Administration Working Group had held emergency meeting on problems related to NPAC. In April 2 letter to FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Thomas Sugrue and Wireline Competition Bureau Chief Dorothy Attwood, Neustar said working group meeting wasn’t held to talk about “NPAC- generated problems. Rather the meeting was held to address issues relating to the ability of some carriers to handle and process large quantities of data in a recovery situation.” That type of recovery scenario could include one carrier’s taking its network offline during normal operations or carrier outage of operations support system. In some cases, Neustar said carriers have run into problems downloading large backlog of data during recovery situation. It said data backlog occurred when carrier’s system went down for period and data from NPAC, which still was being processed, built up. Issues raised at meeting of working group last month “are not generated by volumes of transactions related to pooling or porting,” Neustar said. “The concerns discussed relate to the ability of the carrier’s existing OSS technology to process backlogged data and are addressable through coordination among all of the industry parties in the ordinary course of business.” Neustar also urged FCC to adopt schedule for contracting and initiating testing with NPAC in anticipation of Nov. 24 deadline for wireless LNP. “We believe that such testing is vital to the successful implementation of the FCC’s objectives,” it said. “Phased national rollout schedule” was key component of implementation of wireline LNP 5 years ago, Neustar said. Verizon Wireless has asked FCC to forbear on Nov. 24 wireless LNP implementation deadline and other major carriers are asking for at least delay.