North American Portability Management Releases Transition Plan
North American Portability Management released a transition oversight plan, as required by the FCC March order (see 1503260043) authorizing the start of local number portability administrator contract negotiations with Telcordia. NAPM said it plans to hire an independent manager “with…
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communications infrastructure, project management, and change management experience” to oversee the transition. “The Manager will assist the NAPM LLC throughout the transition in, among other things, (i) determining and enforcing the relative responsibilities of Neustar and iconectiv to maintain all porting, law enforcement assistance, and other services, and (ii) establishing a plan to ensure that, throughout the transition, network security and public safety are protected,” the plan said. NAPM hopes to work out on an agreement with a manager by May 22. Telcordia filed at the FCC a draft agreement under which its parent Ericsson will transfer all its voting stock in Telcordia to a voting trust before the execution of a final LNPA contract. “The identity of voting trustees as well as their compensation arrangements remain to be determined,” the company said. “Telcordia will update this filing once Trustees have been identified.”