FCC Relaxes VoIP 911 Deadline

1:06 am on November 10, 2005 | Category: Business, VoIP

The American FCC has slightly relaxed their position on VoIP 911 emergency compliance rules, ruling that VoIP providers don’t have to cut off service to customers in areas that aren’t properly covered. They will not, however, be able to add any new customers in these areas until coverage is brought up to standard.

The coverage standards set down in the Communications and Public Safety Act of 2005 state that a customer’s exact location must be completely traceable to emergency authorities when they call 911. Although most VoIP providers have made great strides towards complying with this regulation, there are still some remote areas that aren’t fully covered.

This latest decision invalidates the previous judgement that customers who weren’t properly covered were to have their service cut off by the November 28 deadline. The aim of this is obviously to give VoIP providers an incentive to provide fully functional 911 capability, without taking the drastic step of cutting off phone service to thousands of customers.

Links: , , , , , .

Related Articles:

    No Comments yet »

    RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

    Leave a comment

    XHTML: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>


    Published by TeleClick Enterprises
    Edited by Jeremy Maddock