Deny Neustar Petitions, CTIA Says
Granting Neustar’s petition to rebid the selection of the next local number portability administrator would "substantially delay or derail entirely the LNPA selection process, to the detriment of the public -- while only one party (Neustar) stands to gain,” CTIA…
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said in a reply comment filed Wednesday to the FCC on the petitions. With the current contract due to end in June, CTIA said “further inaction will needlessly cost users of the LNP database, and ultimately all U.S. telephone consumers, scores or even hundreds of millions of dollars. Indeed, each day of delay in implementing a new LNPA contract beyond its ... expiration will impose more than $1 million of unnecessary costs on consumers." The group also said Neustar had not objected to the selection procedure previously: “Neustar is not ‘uncertain’ about the LNPA selection process and procedures it previously supported; instead, it ‘merely disagree[s] with them.’” Neustar's reply contested the cost of delay (see 1412030046). Telcordia, recommended to win the contract, pressed for a decision soon.