CenturyLink Asks That PSAP Outage Rule Not Take Effect Until 2016
CenturyLink can support defining partial loss of communications to public safety answering points (PSAPs) as when at least 80 percent of the trunks serving a PSAP are disabled, the company said in an FCC ex parte filing posted Friday to…
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docket 15-80. The company asked that the rule not become effective until at least Oct. 15, 2016, because of other 911-related activities. The telco said that imposing new reporting requirements for call blockages in the wireline network would be burdensome and challenging due to the lack of fully integrated monitoring capabilities across its service footprint.