CommLaw Monitor
VoIP Outage Reporting Makes May FCC Meeting Agenda
It has taken nearly a year since the FCC's Public Safety Bureau first started laying the groundwork, but the FCC is poised to consider expanding its outage reporting rules to cover interconnected VoIP communications…
Investigations into Verizon 911 Outages Moving Forward
It has been a month and a half since we noted that the FCC and Maryland PSC were investigating an incident in which Verizon experienced outages in processing wireless 911 calls to two Maryland counties. See below for a…
FCC, Maryland Probing Verizon 911 Outages
On January 26th, a snowstorm hit the Washington DC area. For many of us in the area, the commute home was quite a nightmare . But for Verizon, the impact was even more disturbing. Verizon suffered outages in its…
Telecom Law Monitor Feature: Regulatory Requirements for VoIP Services
Our post about the unique enforcement posture of interconnected VoIP quickly became the most popular post on the Telecom Law Monitor. One person asked if we could elaborate on the differences in regulatory treatment…
Interconnected VoIP Providers Getting One Free Bite
What are the ramifications of the FCC's refusal to classify interconnected VoIP? For one, it complicates the job of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau. As a recent Citation to Vantage Communications shows, the failure to…