NAPM Counters LNP Alliance 'Misstatements' on Telcordia MSA
North American Portability Management filed to "correct" LNP Alliance "misstatements" about the proposed master services agreement (MSA) that NAPM signed with Telcordia to be the next local number portability administrator. Among the alleged misstatements was that the new MSA restricts…
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the use of the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) to telecom carriers offering telecom services, said an NAPM filing Friday in FCC docket 09-109. Parties, such as interconnected VoIP providers, can use NPAC services if they have obtained phone numbers directly or are eligible to obtain North American Numbering Plan resources for a region, it said. "The LNP Alliance has not identified any issues that could justify [FCC] delay in approving the New MSA ... . Moreover, the issues that the LNP Alliance is now raising constitute untimely petitions for reconsideration that must be denied." NAPM said it was commenting on the LNP Alliance's May 17 filing, which posted in the docket May 18 (see 1605180046). LNP Alliance attorney James Falvey told us Monday that NAPM and Telcordia had created "their own definition of telecommunications services -- that’s a statutory term; so it’s a little strange for them to be redefining that term." More broadly, he said various NAPM/Telcordia definitions "are vague, at times incoherent and unmoored from statutory definitions.”