FCC staff appear to be willing to compromise on the...
FCC staff appear to be willing to compromise on the pending broadband outage reporting requirements, telecom officials told us. Industry met with staff on Thursday, trying to discourage staff from adopting performance metrics in its reporting requirements (CD Nov 7…
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p2). Though they made no concrete promises, staff suggested they might be willing to heed industry’s concerns, the officials said. Just in case, eight associations and 11 companies signed on to an ex parte notice Monday urging the commission “to undertake a thorough and careful cost-benefit analysis and work with industry to identify a more targeted approach to achieve the Commission’s stated goal in this proceeding.” Industry views the proposed outage requirements as “unnecessarily broad,” the notice said (http://xrl.us/bmimvs). It was signed by the American Cable Association, CTIA, CompTel, the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance, NCTA, the American Cable Association, the VON Coalition, USTelecom and several telcos and cable companies. “The proposed rules for outage reporting of broadband networks and interconnected VoIP are not narrowly-tailored and would establish specific service quality thresholds related to latency, jitter, and packet loss that would require providers to file outage reports with the Commission even where a user is able to communicate with public safety officials,” the letter said.