FCC won't enforce cutoff date for VoIP customers unaware of 911 unavailability
The Associated Press is reporting this morning that the US Federal Communications Commission is backing down from enforcing an order requiring VoIP services such as Vonage to cut off service to customers who have not acknowledged they understand they may not receive 911 service through their VoIP phones :
The agency explained that the status reports required from every Internet phone company last week showed that by "repeatedly prompting subscribers through a variety of means, the majority of providers .... have obtained acknowledgments from nearly all, if not all, of their subscribers."
The decision came a day before a deadline that would have required Internet phone companies to cut off at least 10,000 of the estimated 2.7 million users of the service in the United States.
The FCC said providers who have received confirmations from at least 90 percent of their subscribers will no longer face the disconnection requirement, but still must continue seeking the remaining acknowledgments.
(AP via MyWay)
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