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Michigan PSC Adopts IP-Based 911 Reimbursement Cost Categories

Michigan's Public Service Commission unanimously adopted reimbursement cost categories for deploying IP-based 911 services, the PSC said Friday. An order in docket U-20146 approved 12 cost categories and directed providers to submit categorized costs and to indicate if they're recurring.…

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Cable companies disagreed with Frontier Communications seeking reimbursement for the 911 call conversion costs of service providers that aren't a county's 911 service provider (see 1806190065). The agency said the state 911 statute “specifically limits reimbursement to IP-based 9-1-1 service providers after review by the Commission.” In two other unanimous votes Friday, commissioners approved sending (1) unbundled network element and local interconnection services rules in docket U-20160 and (2) basic local exchange service customer migration rules in docket U-20161 to the Legislative Service Bureau and the Office of Regulatory Reinvention for formal approvals.