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Kathy Timko reflects on her experience leading the migration of the NPAC to iconectiv earlier in 2018 in a contributed article for Unified Communications.

Service providers are using new sets of numbering information to complement existing fraud management.

iconectiv recently received the Industry Innovation Award at the 2018 ACA Annual Achievement Awards for the work in transitioning the country’s Number Portability Administration Center and operations. Kathy Timko successfully led and completed one of the largest IT projects in the U.S. – redesigning the country’s Number Portability Administration Center and transitioning operations – from Neustar to iconectiv. The project redesigned a system that facilitates the routing of calls and text messages for more than 650 million U.S phone numbers and created a modern and secure system for the new era of telecommunications.

iconectiv, a partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, has taken over the leadership of the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Committee within ATIS, the company said. John Curreri, Systems Engineer at iconectiv, has been elected as the new chair. Read more.

iconectiv, a partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, has taken over the leadership of the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Committee within ATIS1. John Curreri, Systems Engineer at iconectiv, has been elected as the new chair. AIDC delivers solutions to simplify the receiving, shipping, transportation and tracing processes for telecommunications products, helping the industry achieve greater efficiencies throughout the…

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, some 20 percent of network operator equipment spend is wasted every year. That amounts to a global figure of around $65bn annually. Network waste comes from a variety of sources - buying replacement parts without recognizing that items held in stock could perform the same function, or an inability to cannibalize and re-use equipment during network upgrades for example. Read more.

This market brief on VanillaPlus outlines how service providers can track, manage and assess the value of network assets and more easily comply with financial regulations.