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Neustar, Inc.
 |
| Type |
Public (NYSE: NSR) |
| Founded |
Sterling, Virginia, U.S. (1998 (1998)) |
| Headquarters |
Sterling,
Virginia |
| Industry |
Telecommunications |
| Products |
.biz, .us |
| Revenue |
▲ US$
488,845,000 (2008) |
| Operating
income |
▼ US$
69,106,000 (2008) |
| Net income |
▼ US$
4,294,000 (2008) |
| Total
assets |
US$ 519,166,000 (2008) |
| Total equity |
US$ 386,653,000 (2008) |
| Employees |
966 (December 31, 2008) |
| Website |
Neustar.biz |
| [1] |
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) offers directory and
clearinghouse services to both large and small telecommunications
service providers. They are also the current operator of the .us ccTLD and the .biz gTLD.[2]
Neustar was founded in 1996 as a division of Lockheed Martin
to meet the technical and operational challenges of the
communications industry when the U.S. government mandated local number portability (LNP)
in 1996.[2]
Today, NeuStar offers a range of clearinghouse and other services
alongside its original LNP services.
Neustar was acquired from Lockheed Martin and incorporated in Delaware in 1998. The
company is based in Sterling, Virginia.[2]
Business
overview
Neustar operates the directories that manage virtually all
telephone area codes and numbers, and enables the routing of calls
among thousands of competing communication service providers in the
United States
and Canada. Neustar’s
customers use the databases that Neustar maintains to obtain the
data required to successfully route telephone calls in the United
States and Canada, to exchange information with other communication
service providers, and to manage technological changes in their own
networks.
Neustar administers the U.S. Common Short Codes directory,
which provides special numbers for SMS, and offers mobile messaging solutions to
wireless carriers.
Neustar also provides DNS
services and manages the .us and .biz top level Internet
domains.[3]
Neustar provides registry and DNS services for .tel by agreement with Telnic.[4]
Service
offerings
Addressing Services[3]
Interoperability Services[5]
- Wireline and Wireless Number Portability
- IP Exchange Services
- Order Management Services (OMS)
Infrastructure Services and Other Services[6]
- Network Management
- Fiduciary Compliance Services
- Service Order Administration (SOA)
Customers
Neustar serves traditional providers of communications,
including local exchange
carriers (LECs), competitive local
exchange carriers (CLECs), wireless service providers, and long
distance carriers. The company also serves emerging communication
service providers (CSPs) and VoIP providers.
Contracts
Neustar provides many of its addressing, interoperability and
infrastructure services pursuant to private commercial and
government contracts. Specifically:
- Neustar provides wireline and wireless number portability,
implements the allocation of pooled blocks of telephone numbers and
provides network management services pursuant to seven contracts
with North American Portability Management LLC, an industry group
that represents all TSPs in the United States. Although the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) has plenary authority over the administration
of telephone number portability, it is not a party to Neustar’s
contracts with North American Portability Management LLC. The North
American Numbering Council, a federal advisory committee to which
the FCC has delegated limited oversight responsibilities, reviews
and oversees North American Portability Management LLC’s management
of these contracts.
- Neustar also provides wireline number portability and network
management services in Canada pursuant to a contract with the
Canadian LNP Consortium Inc., a private corporation composed of
telecommunications service providers who participate in number
portability in Canada.
- Neustar serves as the North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
Administrator and the National Pooling Administrator pursuant to
two separate contracts with the FCC. Under these contracts, NeuStar
administers the assignment and implementation of new area codes in
North America, the allocation of central office codes (which are
the three-digit prefixes following the area codes) to TSPs in the
United States, and the assignment and allocation of pooled blocks
of telephone numbers in the United States in a manner designed to
conserve telephone number resources.
- Neustar is the operator of the .biz Internet top-level domain
by contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN). Similarly,
pursuant to a contract with the U.S.
Department of Commerce, the company operates the .us Internet
domain registry.
- Neustar has an exclusive contract with CTIA — The Wireless
Association to serve as the registry operator for the
administration of U.S. Common Short Codes. U.S. Common Short Codes
are short strings of numbers to which text messages can be
addressed — a common addressing scheme that works across all
participating wireless networks.
- Neustar forged a strategic partnership with the GSM Association
(GSMA), the global trade association for mobile providers, to
launch PathFinder – the industry’s first commercially available
Carrier ENUM offering. PathFinder automatically translates a phone
number into an IP-based address, enabling users to initiate a wide
range of IP-based communications via their existing phone numbers
and contact books in their handsets. The GSMA oversees PathFinder,
while NeuStar manages the service on the GSMA’s behalf.
References
- ^ NeuStar, Inc. (March 2, 2009), U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission Form
10-K, FY2008, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265888/000095013309000545/w72883e10vk.htm, retrieved January 1,
2010
- ^ a
b
c
NeuStar,
Inc. (March 25, 2009), U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission ( Form
S-1, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265888/000104746905008020/a2154212zs-1.htm, retrieved January 1,
2010
- ^ a
b
NeuStar, Inc.. "Services:
Addressing". http://www.neustar.biz/addressing/index.cfm. Retrieved January 1,
2010.
- ^ NeuStar, Inc.. ".Tel Top-Level
Domain". http://www.neustarregistry.biz/products/tel. Retrieved January 1,
2010.
- ^ NeuStar, Inc.. "Services:
Interoperability". http://www.neustar.biz/interoperability/index.cfm. Retrieved January 1,
2010.
- ^ NeuStar, Inc.. "Services:
Infrastructure". http://www.neustar.biz/infrastructure/index.cfm. Retrieved January 1,
2010.
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