Fixed Mobile Convergence

Telcordia (News - Alert) has announced that the company has submitted its response to a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the North American Portability Management LLC, the North American Numbering Council and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC (News - Alert)).

In countries around the world, including the United States and Canada, Telcordia's solutions have been selected for number portability deployments, where it provides service for more than 95 percent of the wireless portability activation as well as in Mexico, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, Greece, UAE, Argentina, Chile and South Africa, the company stated in a press release.

“As a number portability leader with the most deployments around the world, Telcordia has significant experience rolling out innovative solutions that provide strong value and performance," said Joel Zamlong, Vice President, Telcordia North American Number Portability business. "Telcordia is pleased to participate in the LNPA procurement process with new ideas to make NPAC management more efficient and less costly for the industry. Beyond our current contributions, we look forward to taking part in the Request for Proposal (RFP).”

Since 1997, the RFI (News - Alert) is part of the first competitive, multi-vendor Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) procurement process. Reducing costs for consumers and wireless carriers, Telcordia's response provides for new, innovative approaches to management of Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) services. Telcordia has unrivaled experience in number portability and is credited for pioneering rollouts in North America and around the world. To meet any budget, deployment demand or challenge, the company’s commercial, off-the-shelf software offers flexible business model options.

Recently, the company revealed that communications provider First Communications (News - Alert) has selected Telcordia Next-Gen OSS to support growth and efficiency gains within its enterprise and network service business. Based on Granite Inventory Version 8, the Telcordia OSS solution for enterprise and wholesale organizations will help the communications provider consolidate business unit-specific network operations inventory management systems into a single, enterprise-wide inventory management system.