Neustar Delivers Draft NDA, Objects to FCC 'Overreach'; Privatization Gets Antitrust OK
Neustar said it gave North American Portability Management a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) on the local number portability administrator transition to Telcordia/iconectiv. But the LNPA incumbent said it had concerns about the intervention of FCC bureaus, which sided with NAPM…
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in a dispute over the treatment of confidential information and asked Neustar to agree to a new NDA by Tuesday (see 1701060065). "Although we object to the Bureaus' overreach in this matter, we delivered a revised NDA that should be reasonably acceptable to the other parties and resolve the matter," said a Neustar letter posted Wednesday in docket 09-109. The company said it "remains committed to working diligently with the NAPM to bridge any perceived gaps" but it "reserves all rights and remedies, including the right to seek review" of a recent bureau letter at the appropriate time. Neustar said the bureau letter called NAPM's Nov. 22 draft NDA a "workable solution" without noting it reflected the consortium's "rejection of the draft the FCC staff reviewed and was sufficiently satisfied with" to deliver to the NAPM. It also disputed the letter's implication that "national security-related information" could be at risk due to the NDA negotiations. "Neustar originally proposed making explicit in the NDA that national security information must be protected" and also proposed measures "to mitigate potential risks" to U.S. national security in the transition, said the company. Neustar also called any suggestion it was to blame for transition delay "baseless," and said, "Any delay to this point is the result of iconectiv being required to start from scratch its software development because of its impermissible use of foreign nationals." The FCC, NAPM and iconectiv didn't comment. Meanwhile, Neustar's planned sale to a private investor group got antitrust clearance, said an early termination notice Tuesday of the FTC, which posts such notices for both it and DOJ. Its sale to a group led by Golden Gate Capital is expected to need review by the FCC and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, but the transaction isn't expected to slow the LNPA transition (see 1612140062).