CommLaw Monitor
FCC (Again) Takes to Bully Pulpit to Urge Network Reliability "Best Practices" to Combat Service Outages
On July 12, 2017, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (“Bureau”) of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) issued a Public Notice encouraging communications service providers to implement certain…
FCC Takes No Enforcement Action Despite Report Finding that Avoidable Failures Led to AT&T Mobility 911 Outage
On May 18, 2017, at the Federal Communication Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) May Open Meeting, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (“Bureau”) presented its final report on its investigation into the…
Text-to-911 Rules Now Effective
The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC’s” or “Commission’s”) new text-to-911 rules are effective today . As we discussed in a previous post immediately following the adoption of the related order, the FCC has…
FCC Adopts Text-to-911 Rules for Wireless Carriers and Certain OTT Texting Apps
Following on the heels of a voluntary commitment from the four nationwide wireless carriers to support text-to-911, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”), on August 8, 2014, adopted a Report and…
FCC Proposes $100,000 Forfeiture for Failing to Route 911 Calls to PSAPs
This week the FCC took enforcement action against a local exchange carrier operating in Oklahoma for failing to route 911 calls to public safety authorities. In what appears to be the first Notice of Apparent Liability…