NeuStar's Inter-Carrier CARE Clearinghouse Service Provides Cost-Effective Answer to Proposed FCC Mandate

NeuStar's Inter-Carrier CARE Clearinghouse Service Provides Cost-Effective Answer to Proposed FCC Mandate

Company Offers Standard Interface to Expedite Customer Account Orders, Provisioning and Billing Efficiency

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- To help expedite all inter-carrier requests for customer orders, provisioning and billing, NeuStar, a leading provider of information exchange services to the communications industry, offers a standard interface service known as Customer Account Request Exchange (CARE) Clearinghouse.

NeuStar's CARE Clearinghouse provides a cost-effective solution to a proposed Federal Communications Commission mandate that may require telephone service providers to use a standard method when processing inter-carrier customer requests.

NeuStar's CARE Clearinghouse offers telephone service providers a single interface solution to exchange critical customer account information to insure accurate and timely billing.

"NeuStar's CARE Clearinghouse efficiently gathers customer data, into a universal interface that's accessible to all carriers," said Jeffrey E. Ganek, chairman and CEO of NeuStar. "Our Clearinghouse allows telephone service providers to send and receive CARE messages, in a timely and efficient manner, through a single automated Web-based interface -- saving resources and improving their customer service."

Presently, the transmission of inter-carrier customer requests varies among service providers, including the use of fax, e-mail or mechanized file processing. Customers are affected if CARE records are not exchanged properly or promptly, often resulting in inaccurate billing.

NeuStar hosts the Clearinghouse service within its own data centers and performs extensive tracking and reporting to ensure all CARE transactions are error-free.

Unlike costly gateway services, NeuStar's CARE Clearinghouse solves CARE inefficiencies without the investment in upfront capital expense.

About NeuStar Inc.

Based in Washington, D.C., NeuStar is a neutral third party provider of mission-critical services to telecommunications and Internet service providers around the world. NeuStar enables the interoperability and convergence of networks. NeuStar operates the authoritative registry of all North American telephone numbers and administers the database, relied on by all North American carriers to route billions of telephone calls daily. NeuStar also operates the dot-US registry, America's Internet Address(R). NeuLevel(R), NeuStar's subsidiary, operates the .BIZ registry, the world's first top-level domain dedicated exclusively to business. Over 4000 telecommunications and service providers currently rely upon NeuStar's services. Visit NeuStar online at http://www.neustar.biz/


Source: NeuStar

CONTACT: Sue Cushing +1-571-434-5150, sue.cushing@NeuStar.biz, or Daniel
Diaz Zapata, +1-571-434-5151, daniel.diaz@NeuStar.biz, both of NeuStar

Web site: http://www.neustar.biz/


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