Experts Helping Neustar on LNPA Transition Say NAPM, PwC Not Sharing Information
IT experts assisting Neustar in the local number portability administrator (LNPA) transition said they're "increasingly concerned" that North American Portability Management and PwC -- NAPM's transition oversight manager (TOM) -- aren't sharing information on transition governance, risk and scheduling. "The…
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failure to share this information has the potential to significantly delay project completion," said Michael Krieger, Priscilla Guthrie and Roger Loeb in a Neustar filing posted Monday in docket 09-109. "Although the requisite transition planning documents may exist, they have not, to date, been shared with Neustar. Without such communication and transparency, this project does not appear to be on a path to meet even the high-level milestones provided by the NAPM and the TOM in the most recent timeline." It cited a webcast in which PwC anticipated completing the LNPA migration to Telcordia's iconectiv by May 2018, with various milestones along the way. "This concern is compounded by the failure of the NAPM’s monthly transition reports to the FCC to provide a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the transition’s status. Without significant changes to the current transition process, it is reasonable to conclude that the transition will not be completed until sometime in 2019," they wrote. NAPM and PwC didn't comment. Separately, Neustar said in a release last week that the Canadian Local Number Portability Consortium picked the company to be the LNPA in that country through 2028.