Neustar
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Telecommunication |
| Founded: | USA (1996) |
| Headquarters: | Corporate Headquarters 46000 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 USA |
| Employees: | 966 (2009) |
| Revenue: | 4,294,000 (2009) |
| Website: | http://www.neustar.biz |
| Key People | |
| Eric Brown, Director Keith Drazek, Senior Manager Fernando España, Senior Manager Jeff Neuman, Vice President Tim Switzer, Vice President Judy Song-Marshall, Director of Marketing William Tan, Software Engineer | |
NeuStar is a telecommunication service providing company Virginia, USA, which also company provides surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services to the global communications and Internet industry. NeuStar was founded in 1996 under Lockheed Martin CIS and changed its name to NeuStar in 1999. [1]
NeuStar acts as both traditional providers of communications i.e. local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers, and long distance carriers etc and communication service technology providers i.e. VoIP services, wireless data, and law enforcement compliances. Thier clearinghouse services enable customers to manage activities like recordi exchanges, subscriber growth, network optimization, content management, and inter-network call origination and termination[2]
History
In 1995 two technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation merged to form Lockheed Martin Corporation. [3] Lockheed Martin’s Communication Industry Services (CIS) division was transfared to NeuStar, Inc in November, 1999. [4]
In 1996, NeuStar, then the Communications Industry Services (CIS) operating unit within Lockheed Martin, won its original contract to provide local number portability services to select regions throughout North America. [5] In 1997, it won the contract to become the official North American Numbering Plan (NANP) administrator. [6]
In 1998, Neustar trialed number pooling at the state-wide level.[7]
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