NAPM Opposes Neustar Motion for FCC To Force Telcordia Explanations
North American Portability Management urged the FCC to deny Neustar's motion to order Telcordia to show why it shouldn't be disqualified as the next local number portability administrator. NAPM said Neustar, the current LNPA, is simply trying to delay the…
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transition to Telcordia. "For each day that Neustar is able to delay transition, Neustar holds on to additional revenue of at least $1.4M, and the public loses out on approximately $1M in savings," said NAPM, the commission's LNPA overseer, in a filing Thursday in docket 09-109. Neustar and the FCC didn't comment Friday. Neustar's show-cause motion suggested Ericsson-owned Telcordia made misrepresentations to the FCC about the use of U.S. citizens to develop software code for Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) systems (see 1606020050). Telcordia denied it assured the FCC over a year ago it would, as LNPA, use only U.S. citizens to work on the code, but said the commission interpreted an "ambiguous statement" to that effect (see 160613004). Telcordia also noted it had agreed with the FCC to discard the preliminary work anyway and had started coding anew (see 1604290056). In a reply Wednesday, Neustar said Telcordia's response showed a public review is needed because Telcordia didn't deny it (1) misled the FCC, (2) violated a 2015 LNPA selection order or (3) failed to disclose the violation "until after the NAPM and/or the Commission discovered it." In its Thursday filing, NAPM urged the FCC to approve Telcordia's LNPA master services agreement (MSA) and deny Neustar's motion. Telcordia "committed to building the NPAC in America from the ground up using only U.S. citizens"; the proposed "MSA requires Telcordia to build the NPAC in America from the ground up using only U.S. citizens"; and NAPM with FCC oversight "will ensure that the NPAC delivered by Telcordia [is] in fact built in America from the ground up using only U.S. citizens," NAPM wrote. "Telcordia has not made any misrepresentations to anyone, and Neustar's filings have no basis in fact or applicable law." NAPM also submitted a lengthier rebuttal to Neustar's motion.