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Verizon and Verizon Wireless Pay $200,000 to Settle Outage Reporting Investigations
Randy Sifers contributed to this blog post. On March 14, 2012, the FCC released two consent decrees settling investigations into Verizon’s and Verizon Wireless’s outage reporting practices. Collectively, the two…
Interconnected VoIP Providers Required to Report Outages
As we've discussed, today the FCC adopted rules to require interconnected VoIP providers to report network outages to the FCC. The text of the FCC's order has not been released, but the order adopts a much narrower…
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…
Two FCC Commissioners Signal Support for Extension of Outage Reporting to VoIP
Yesterday, the FCC held its "Workshop/Webinar" on the pending proposal to extend the outage reporting requirements to interconnected VoIP and to broadband service providers. We've noted several times that the FCC staff…
Does the Ooma Outage Portend of New FCC Rules?
Interconnected VoIP provider Ooma suffered a three-hour outage late last week. Ooma identified the cause of the outage as "an extremely rare power failure at a portion of our data center," but the effect of the outage…