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iconectiv is an American subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. The company provides network and operations management, numbering, registry and fraud prevention solutions solve communications problems, support complex operations missions and system interoperability issues for the global telecommunications industry. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey (U.S.), iconectiv has more than 5,000 customers on six continents and maintains several branches and subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Formerly | Central Services Organization, Inc. (1983) Bell Communications Research, Inc. (1984-1999) |
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Company type | Private |
Industry | Telecom Research |
Predecessor | Bell Telephone Laboratories |
Founded | October 1983; 40 years ago (1983-10) |
Headquarters | Bridgewater, NJ U.S.A |
Key people | Richard Jacowleff (CEO) |
Products | Fraud & Identity Numbering Messaging Network & Operations Industry Registries |
Owners | Ericsson (2012–present) Francisco Partners (16.7%, 2017–present)[1] |
Number of employees | 500+ (2017) |
Website | iconectiv |
A major architect of the United States telecommunications system. iconectiv pioneered many services, including caller ID, call waiting, mobile number portability and toll-free telephone number (800) service. It also pioneered the prepaid charging system, the Intelligent Network.
iconectiv provides numbering services in more than a dozen countries, including serving as the Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) for the United States. In that capacity, iconectiv manages the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), the system that supports the implementation of local number portability and is used to facilitate number porting in the United States.