CTIA, USTelecom Urge FCC to Complete LNPA Selection

CTIA and USTelecom said the record supports retaining iconectiv as the FCC's local number portability administrator (LNPA), in response to an October notice. “Now that the record has closed, the Associations urge the Commission to move forward expeditiously to extend the existing contract with the current LNPA and adopt the LNPA selection procedures proposed in the Public Notice,” the groups said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 23-337: “While the Associations, like other parties, would prefer that completion of the LNPA selection and transition process be accomplished more quickly than the last selection and transition processes, that experience shows that these processes are multi-year undertakings that often take longer than anticipated.”