The FCC denied a CTIA petition seeking to...
The FCC denied a CTIA petition seeking to eliminate the text-to-911 bounceback requirement contained in the commission’s May text-to-911 order, but amended the requirement to address roaming. “We are persuaded by the technical representations made in the record that under…
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the current technical standard developed for SMS-based texting to 911, the home provider alone has control over sending a consumer a required bounce-back message,” the order said (http://bit.ly/16aUsqM). “Current network architecture is such that, when a roaming consumer sends an SMS message, that message is routed first to the home provider, which has control over the further routing of that SMS message to its intended recipient. It is therefore the home provider that has direct control over the delivery of the SMS message to its intended recipient. Thus, we agree with CTIA that based on current network architecture, it would be technically challenging for a host provider to originate a bounce-back message to a roaming consumer.” The FCC’s May text-to-911 order had required all CMRS providers and providers of interconnected messaging services to provide an automatic bounceback text message starting Monday when a consumer attempts to send a text message to 911 in areas where text-to-911 is not available (CD May 9 p4). Under the revised rule, a carrier providing roaming service satisfies its bounceback obligation “provided that it does not impede the consumer’s text to the consumer’s home network provider (home provider) or impede any bounce-back message generated by the home provider back to the consumer."