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iconectiv supplies communications providers with network planning and management services. The company’s cloud-based information as a service network and operations management and numbering solutions span trusted communications, digital identity management and fraud prevention. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the <a href="/facts/Bell_System/GspEoeEF">Bell System</a>, the company's name changed to Telcordia Technologies after a change of ownership in 1996. The business was acquired by <a href="/facts/Ericsson/yJ4oMMp7">Ericsson</a> in 2012, then restructured and rebranded as iconectiv in 2013.
A major architect of the United States telecommunications system, the company pioneered many services, including <a href="/facts/Caller_ID/hh9DqEEj">caller ID</a>, <a href="/facts/Call_waiting/CTQTktqy">call waiting</a>, <a href="/facts/Mobile_number_portability/7VaMVCfs">mobile number portability</a>, and <a href="/facts/Toll-free_telephone_number/n9cLQxlh">toll-free telephone</a> (800) service. It also pioneered the prepaid charging system and the <a href="/facts/Intelligent_Network/FeMCczkt">Intelligent Network</a>.
Headquartered in <a href="/facts/Bridgewater%2c_New_Jersey/lktkAhpJ">Bridgewater, New Jersey</a> (U.S.), iconectiv provides network and operations management, numbering, registry and fraud prevention services for the global telecommunications industry. It 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 <a href="/facts/Number_Portability_Administration_Center/sm9Pbrf0">Number Portability Administration Center</a> (NPAC), the system that supports the implementation of local number portability.

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