FCC Confirms Somos to Become NANPA, PA for 1 Year, While Contracts Are Consolidated
Somos will become North American numbering plan administrator and pooling administrator under separate one-year bridge contracts, said the FCC Tuesday. That confirmed a Somos announcement Monday (see 1810150057). Some will take over from Neustar, while the commission works to consolidate…
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functions under a new, competitively bid, long-term contract aimed at a "more cost-efficient and effective operation," said the agency. It said NANPA administers phone numbers for member countries and the PA administers number pooling functions in the U.S., including as the routing number administrator for non-dialable numbers on emergency calls. Neustar declined to comment.