VON Coalition Seeks Caution on New 911 Rules for VoIP
The FCC should give VoIP providers at least two years to implement new 911 obligations, plus limitations on liability like other voice providers get, the Voice on the Net Coalition said. The VON Coalition and members Microsoft and RingCentral met…
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May 22 with the Public Safety Bureau and an aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, said an ex parte posting Tuesday in docket 18-261. Technical limitations restrict nomadic, interconnected VoIP providers ability to provide dispatchable location, the coalition said. The FCC needn’t require that of fixed VoIP providers, either, because “in most cases that information is already collected and provided,” it said. Don’t make 911 rules for one-way, outbound-only VoIP services “because it would impose costs on what is typically a free service and there is no evidence that users of these service expect they can be used for 911 calls,” the group said.