The FCC can’t properly regulate next generation 911 without tackling problems...
The FCC can’t properly regulate next generation 911 without tackling problems with IP interconnection, CompTel said in comments filed on docket 11-153 and circulated by email on Monday. “Each and every advancement contemplated by the Commission in the deployment of…
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NG911 is built upon the premise of using Internet Protocol (IP) as the foundation for all communications. COMPTEL fully supports this presumption,” CompTel lawyer Mary Albert said in her 19-page submission. “It also submits that the Commission’s premise represents yet another example of the need for the Commission to confirm without further delay that carriers are entitled to direct IP-to-IP interconnection pursuant to Sections 251 and 252 of the Act so that they may offer their customers access to managed, advanced NG911 services.” CLECs, in particular, have been angry that the FCC punted on IP interconnections in its USF reform order and merely order telcos to negotiate in “good faith” while the commission goes through another round of rulemaking (CD Oct 28 p1). CompTel has been aggressively pushing an IP interconnection mandate on the USF docket and now on the next generation 911 docket.