The FCC Enforcement Bureau ‘will not pursue enforcement actions’ ...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau “will not pursue enforcement actions” against interconnected VoIP service providers that obtained affirmative acknowledgments about 911 service limitations from at least 90% of their subscribers, it said. But the Bureau said it expects those providers…
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would continue seeking the remaining acknowledgments and would notify the FCC once they've reached 100% compliance. “It’s evident that many providers have devoted significant resources to notifying each of their subscribers of the limitations of their 911 service,” the Bureau said based on providers’ progress reports. The Sept. reports, for example, show that at least 21 providers got acknowledgments from 100% of their subscribers and at least 32 others from 90% or more, it said. As for providers that didn’t receive acknowledgments from at least 90% of their subscriber, the Bureau said it would forbear from enforcing its requirement until Oct. 31, as long as those providers report to the FCC on the compliance status by Oct. 25. The status reports should “detail the efforts that [providers] have undertaken to obtain acknowledgments from the remainder of their subscriber base, explain why they have been unable to achieve an acknowledgment percentage closer to 100% and provide the current percentage of acknowledgments that they have received as of the date of filing,” the Bureau said.