With the start of a new year upon us, it’s worth giving some thought to what needs to be accomplished in the coming year. Each month, we write about upcoming deadlines for broadcasters and telecommunications providers regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but in addition to the fixed regulatory filing deadlines discussed in these … Continue Reading
Back in February the FCC released its new E911 standards designed to improve E911 location capability. As we reported in March, most of those new standards were to take effect in April … except for a small handful that happened to be “information collections” and thus subject to the hilariously named Paperwork Reduction Act. Thanks … Continue Reading
In the wake of an impressively cooperative response to the Commission's 2014 proposals, the FCC has established a new set of E911 location standards.… Continue Reading
Deadlines have been set for responding to the FCC's request for input on the likely effects of the copper-to-IP technology transition on consumers and competitive providers have been set.… Continue Reading
The FCC is looking to address the effects that discontinuance of copper-based services can be expect to have on consumers and competition.… Continue Reading
The transition from circuit-switched telephone technology to digital-based IP telephony is a game-changing development. FHH telecom guru Paul Feldman will help explain it in an upcoming FREE webinar. Details at the link below.… Continue Reading
Comment deadlines have been set in the FCC proceeding that could eventually mean serious changes in what we understand a telephone number to represent.… Continue Reading
New E911 rules designed to make it easier to locate you (and anybody else with a personal communications device) are now set to take effect in November.… Continue Reading
Deadlines for comments and reply comments have been set with respect to on the Commission's latest effort to improve the accuracy of E-911 location identification capabilities.… Continue Reading
Even as privacy advocates are getting increasingly nervous about the extent to which our communications devices keep tabs on our whereabouts, the FCC is looking to make it easier to monitor our location more precisely and over a broader range of devices.… Continue Reading
As a further indication of the increasing significance of VoIP on the communications landscape, the Commission is proposing to extend its outage reporting requirements to interconnected VoIP and broadband Internet access service providers (including Internet backbone network providers).… Continue Reading
Last week we reported on a proposal to expand the requirement that VoIP providers contribute to the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund. Deadlines for comments on that proposal have now been set.… Continue Reading
At Congress's direction, the FCC is moving forward with proposals that would (a) substantially increase regulatory burdens on VoIP providers and (b) immerse the Commission in areas that aren't exactly within its area of expertise.… Continue Reading
The implications of the D.C. Circuit's recent Comcast decision affect more than the FCC's net neutrality aspirations. The fall-out from that decision could, for example, gut the Commission's regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service.… Continue Reading
A reader asked us if Google Voice can legally refuse to place phone calls to some areas. Two days later, the FCC asked Google the same thing. The bad news - any answer that Google might give will spell trouble for the phone system.… Continue Reading
