ECFS, Auction Software Experience Outages
The FCC incentive auction Public Reporting System and its Electronic Comment Filing System experienced outages Wednesday that prevented users from accessing the auction bidding system or reading documents filed with the commission. Though ECFS' difficulties persisted into late afternoon according…
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to several users of the system, the problems with PRS were cleared up less than 15 minutes after the Incentive Auction Task Force announced them, according to time-stamped announcements on the PRS system that have since been removed. The PRS announcement blamed the issue on internet connectivity problems. An FCC spokesman told us the problem affected about 80 documents, and was resolved by Wednesday afternoon, though it could take more time to provide access to the documents. The FCC said it is exploring the cause of the internet outage with its vendors. The spokesman said the issues are believed to be unrelated.