CommLaw Monitor
FCC Proposes Aggressive Location Accuracy Requirements for Indoor 911 Calls Despite Concerns
At its open meeting on February 20, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to improve the accuracy of caller location information provided to public safety officials for all wireless calls to 911,…
FCC Will Examine Transition to All-IP Networks through Voluntary Service-Based Experiments and Rural Broadband Trials
Today, the FCC adopted a series of steps intended to solicit proposals from communications providers to conduct service-based experiments to explore the transition to all-Internet Protocol (“IP”) networks. Chairman…
Derecho Storm Leads to FCC 911 Inquiry
The June 29 "Derecho" storm brought significant damage and power outages to the Mid-Atlantic region. It also brought a number of high-profile 911 outages, which have attracted the FCC's attention. This week, the Public…
VoIP Outage Reporting Obligations to be Adopted at February 15 FCC Meeting
VoIP providers, prepare to report outages to the FCC. Since early in 2010, the FCC has been on a path to impose new outage reporting obligations on providers of interconnected VoIP services, despite industry opposition…
FCC Takes No Action Against Verizon 911 Outage; Maryland Still Investigating
Last year, we posted a couple of items about outages in Verizon's 911 call completion systems, and investigations by the FCC and the Maryland PSC. We thought now would be a good time for an update on those…