Vonage praised the FCC for extending the deadline for interconnec...
Vonage praised the FCC for extending the deadline for interconnected VoIP service providers to get customers’ affirmative acknowledgments about 911 service limitations. The FCC Enforcement Bureau said Tues. it won’t act against VoIP providers who got such acknowledgments from…
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at least 90% of their subscribers. Providers missing the 90% cutoff won’t face enforcement until Oct. 31, the Bureau said (CD Sept 28 p5). Vonage said Wed. it has affirmative acknowledgments from nearly 99% of customers and will continue to pursue them from the last 10,000. It said it will tell the FCC when it hits 100%. “We are also working as hard as we can to turn E-911 up as quickly as possible to meet the FCC’s 120-day requirement,” Vonage Chmn. Jeffrey Citron said. VoIP providers were ordered to make their systems E-911 compliant by Nov. 28. Vonage said it expects to make E-911 available to the majority of its customers before year’s end.