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Neustar hopes the North American Numbering Council made...

Neustar hopes the North American Numbering Council made the right decision when it decided to forward the Selection Working Group report and recommendation to the FCC on the next Local Numbering Portability Administrator, it said. “We are hopeful that the…

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NANC has recommended a pro-competitive outcome: another round of bidding,” said Neustar Senior Vice President-Data Solution Steve Edwards in a statement. “There is no downside to better bids -- this can only benefit consumers and carriers alike.” The FCC will now have the opportunity to address the “procedural irregularities” that have arisen throughout the bidding process, he said. “To call the game now would be anticompetitive and exclusionary of stakeholder interests. We continue to believe there should be an additional round of proposals. Failing to offer an additional round deprives the industry and consumers from being able to consider the best available offer.” NANC held a closed meeting Wednesday in which it discussed the LNPA selection process (CD March 26 p7). An FCC spokesman said he couldn’t discuss what was said in the closed meeting.