FCC staff recommends Telcordia over Neustar for LNP contract [telecom]

FCC staff recommends Ericsson's Telcordia unit win number portability contract away from Neustar.

By Phil Goldstein, FierceCable, March 5, 2015

The FCC's staff recommended that Ericsson's Telcordia unit win a key government number portability contract, dealing a grievous blow to Neustar, which has administered the number portability system since

1997 and counts on it for about half its revenue. The recommendation, from the Wireline Competition Bureau, still needs to be approved by a vote of the agency's five commissioners, who can accept, reject or modify the FCC staff's proposal.

At issue is which vendor is going to be the U.S. government's neutral and tested local-number-portability administrator (LNPA), which helps phone subscribers keep their numbers when switching carriers.

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Neal McLain