Public Knowledge Pleased With FCC Action On VoIP Reporting
Public Knowledge Pleased With FCC Action On VoIP Reporting
Public Knowledge Pleased With FCC Action On VoIP Reporting

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    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today
    extended mandatory reporting of network outages to service provided by Voice
    Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service.

    The following is attributed to Harold Feld, legal
    director of Public Knowledge:

    “We are pleased the FCC has extended outage reporting
    requirements to VoIP.  As the Commission
    recognized, this reporting must be mandatory in order to collect the necessary
    data to analyze the outages.  At the same
    time, we are disappointed that this data, as with other reported outage
    information, will not be made public.

    “As we said in our comments filed with the Open
    Technology Initiative last fall, the reporting burden will be minimal on VoIP
    providers.

    “We will continue to monitor the issue of voluntary outage
    reporting by broadband service providers given the uncertain status of the FCC
    authority over broadband service.”

     

    Public Knowledge is a Washington D.C.- based public interest
    group working to defend consumer rights in the emerging digital culture.  More information is available at http://www.publicknowledge.org.