Neustar to Challenge New FCC LNPA Order, Seek Consolidated Review, No Delay

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which is reviewing the company's previous challenge to a March 2015 order that conditionally selected Telcordia as the LNPA (Neustar v. FCC, No. 15-1080). Neustar said the FCC acknowledged in an Aug. 8 letter (in Pacer) that the July 25 order approving Telcordia's master services agreements to run the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) mooted the commission's jurisdictional objection to Neustar's previous challenge to the conditional order. Neustar said it didn't intend to raise any additional legal issues in its new petition for review and would move to consolidate the court proceedings on its challenges. Noting the FCC didn't ask for the court's Sept. 13 oral argument on the first challenge to be delayed, Neustar said there would be no justification for a postponement as parties could make supplemental filings to apprise the court of any relevant developments. The FCC didn't comment Monday. Neustar made another filing Monday in FCC docket 09-109 asking to include in the record 18 pages of documents released by the commission due to a Communications Daily Freedom of Information Act request (see 1607250029). "The attached documents, comprising correspondence between the Commission and Ericsson's wholly owned subsidiary, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. d/b/a iconectiv, related to the use of non-U.S. citizens in the development of the NPAC, are directly relevant" to the FCC's July 25 order, the filing said.