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Neustar took heart in a letter Wireline Bureau...

Neustar took heart in a letter Wireline Bureau Chief Julie Veach sent rival Telcordia asking for more information to clarify the scope of the second company’s relationships with telecom service providers, a Neustar spokeswoman told us Monday. The letter (http://bit.ly/1uOEQ5C),…

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dated Sept. 10 and posted in docket 09-109 Monday, asked for a list of TSP and TSP affiliates to which Telcordia or parent Ericsson provides managed services. Neustar had challenged Telcordia’s neutrality because of the business relationships (CD Aug 25 p5). “Ericsson’s close financial and business entanglements with major mobile operators render it unable to be a neutral” Local Number Portability Administrator, “and hence legally unable to serve,” Neustar said in a statement. “That for the first time there is this level of focus ... is a positive development for the many medium and small carriers that would be stuck bearing the risks and costs of an unnecessary transition.” Telcordia was not immediately available for comment.