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FCC Focuses Bully Pulpit on 911 Practices

The Genachowski FCC is enamored with the bully pulpit as an enforcement tool.  In the year since the new Chairman has taken office, we’ve seen examples with FCC letters to Apple regarding its iPhone...

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FCC Announces Schedule for National Broadband Plan Proceedings

Thursday, April 8, 2010, the FCC released its Broadband Action Agenda describing the purpose and timing of more than 60 rulemakings and other actions the agency plans to conduct in order to implement...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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FCC Will Examine Transition to All-IP Networks through Voluntary...

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”)...

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FCC Proposes Aggressive Location Accuracy Requirements for Indoor 911 Calls...

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...

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FCC Proposes $100,000 Forfeiture for Failing to Route 911 Calls to PSAPs

This week the FCC took enforcement action against a local exchange carrier operating in Oklahoma for failing to route 911 calls to public safety authorities.  In what appears to be the first Notice of...

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FCC Adopts Text-to-911 Rules for Wireless Carriers and Certain OTT Texting Apps

Following on the heels of a voluntary commitment from the four nationwide wireless carriers to support text-to-911, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”), on August 8, 2014,...

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Text-to-911 Rules Now Effective

The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC’s” or “Commission’s”) new text-to-911 rules are effective today. As we discussed in a previous post immediately following the adoption of the related...

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