Sprint Tells FCC to Stick to LNPA Transition Timetable, NAPM Contingency Rollback Plan
The local number portability administrator transition should proceed "without delay," said Sprint, citing "a very low likelihood of catastrophic failure that would necessitate a manual rollback" from incoming LNPA iconectiv to incumbent Neustar. "Sprint's testing to date has been successful,"…
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said its letter posted Wednesday in FCC docket 09-109. Sprint did Number Portability Administration Center "connectivity testing in a production environment and is able to move, without issue, between Neustar and iconectiv. ... Sprint has also tested successfully its internal platforms to ensure they are working with iconectiv’s. And, Sprint has engaged in a variety of industry-level testing." Although it highly doubts the need for a rollback, the carrier "has confidence in the contingency plan" of North American Portability Management and its transition oversight manager, PwC. "Some carriers, including Sprint, will also take measures to delay/suspend large port transactions until after the cutover is complete (i.e., Sprint will avoid mass porting jobs during the cutover)," it said. CenturyLink and Frontier Communications recently supported (here and here) the transition timetable and NAPM's contingency rollback plan, buttressing filings from other large carriers; Neustar, the LNP Alliance and Cloud Communications Alliance have objected (see 1803090031, 1802280041, 1802070003 and 1803130047).