There’s an “urgent and compelling need” to restore...

There’s an “urgent and compelling need” to restore transparency and fairness to the local number portability administrator (LNPA) selection process, Neustar told the FCC in a letter Monday (http://bit.ly/1boeOvL). Neustar, the current administrator, said it was responding to a filing from Telcordia’s counsel stating similar concerns. But Telcordia’s remedy -- a revised timeline -- is “insufficient because the process utilized to date has been flawed,” Neustar said. “It is time for the Commission to intervene” in the process conducted by North American Portability Management, Neustar said. “The Commission should resolve the question whether there should be an additional round of offers” before any new timeline is issued, Neustar said. It also asked the commission to direct the Future of Number Portability Administration Center subcommittee to receive additional proposals. “The publication of a new timeline that fails to address these issues would be no more than a blatant end-run around lawful administrative procedure and the dictates of transparency and fairness in the LNPA selection process,” Neustar said. Neustar has long been lamenting a perceived lack of transparency and responsiveness in the number portability administrator bidding process (CD April 26 p7).