Telcordia Attempts to Ease Concerns Fall Short, Neustar Says
Steps Telcordia and parent Ericsson are willing to take to ease FCC concerns about Telcordia's ability to act neutrally as the local number portability administrator “just confirms the seriousness and difficulty Ericsson has meeting the statutory impartiality requirement,” a spokeswoman…
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for rival Neustar said Wednesday. Telcordia and Ericsson had told the agency that they would be willing to consider such steps as instituting a voting trust for a portion of Ericsson’s interest in Telcordia (see 1502100040). Telcordia was recommended by an FCC committee to be the next LNPA. Neustar, the current LNPA, said in a statement to us that a “voting trust doesn't solve” neutrality concerns “because Ericsson and Telcordia remain inextricably intertwined. A voting trust would be wholly inconsistent with the FCC’s Safe Harbor Order, which expressly prohibited Neustar from using voting trusts to satisfy neutrality. It is strange that the FCC would consider weakening the neutrality rules for the telephone network at the same time it is looking to strengthen those rules for broadband networks.”