LNP Administrator Transition Expected To Run Through Q3 2017, PwC Officials Say

The FCC's planned local number portability administrator transition from Neustar to Ericsson's iconectiv is expected to last through Q3 2017, said officials from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the transition oversight manager, on an agency-promoted webcast Wednesday. Various testing regimes of software and other elements of new LNP administrator systems are expected to begin by the end of this quarter and continue through Q1 2017, they said. "Data migration" is expected to "go live" in early 2017, they said. All of the projected time frames are preliminary and will depend on the finalization of various contracts and agreements.