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November 28, 2005

Today is Compliance Day for "Interconnected VoIP Providers" in the USA:

Today, November 28th, is the deadline by which US based "Interconnected VoIP Providers" must be in compliance with the FCC's E-911 for VoIP Order, and, at a minimum, will be precluded from marketing VoIP services in areas where they have not implemented an E-911 solution. As a practical matter, that means VoIP providers will have serious problems signing up new customers anywhere in the country, because there will always be a place where a nomadic VoIP service will be beyond the reach of an E-911 accessible Public Safety Access Point (PSAP). If the VoIP service can be taken anywhere (including a place without E-911 service), then the VoIP service can be taken nowhere - it must essentially be locked down to a fixed location with a guaranteed localized E-911 receiver. As I have said many times within my blog, this means precluding many Americans from availing themselves of one of the best features of VoIP - the ability to take your service with you, wherever you go. Like mobile phones, VoIP provides an ability to call a person, not a location.

But that is not why I touch on E-911 within this particular blog post.

I'm writing this blog entry to point to another example of misdirection and false advertising. I have had many conversations with those that have E-911 solutions for the VoIP industry. First of all, I applaud their innovations and attempts to pave the way for a nationwide emergency response capability for IP-based communications. Their entrepreneurship and perseverance is what the Internet economy should be encouraging. I do have some concerns that these companies are not being entirely forthright with themselves, their potential customers, and policymakers over all their motivations. The FCC's imposition of backward-compatible E-911 obligations, without an obligation to allow VoIP providers DIRECT access to the necessary network elements needed to reach an emergency responder, is in the best financial interest of those companies that will provide the intermediating services between emergency response centers and VoIP providers. Thus, the solution that the FCC has required, and that these emergency response facilitators endorse, has serious financial benefit to these access providers. I, for one, think their arguments should be prefaced with such a disclaimer. I, frankly think it would give their arguments much more credibility.

I would never suggest that government require such disclosures, but I do think, we all should take it upon ourselves to disclose our biases and the reasons.


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StanaPhone must believe that they know "Interconnected VoIP Provider" means. See "November 22, 2005 04:30 PM US Eastern Timezone

StanaPhone is No Longer an ``Interconnected VoIP Provider''; Company affirms compliance with FCC's November 28 deadline." Please read the press release and let's decide what happens if they have a customer who buys the Stana-IN and Stana-OUT? Isn't that interconnected?

I also found this http://www.dwt.com/practc/telecom/bulletins/06-05_VoIPE911(print).htm where it gives a definition of the term. "In Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) FCC 05-116, the Commission requires "interconnected VoIP providers" (voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP) to provide enhanced 911 (E911) emergency calling capabilities to their customers as a mandatory feature of the service.

The Order defines an interconnected VoIP provider as bearing the following characteristics: (1) the service enables real-time, two-way voice communications; (2) the service requires a broadband connection from the user's location; (3) the service requires IP-compatible customer premises equipment (CPE); and (4) the service offering permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and to terminate calls to the PSTN."

There is more. Please research. Hope we all are able to decipher the code.

Posted by: suzanne at December 1, 2005 02:30 PM

So far, I do not see any of the major interconnected VoIP providers taking down their marketing campaigns. The FCC's order says that "we expect" VoIP companies to stop marketing. It does not use the word "mandate" or "require." The FCC statement looks like hollow dictum.

It seems that the FCC is going to have to send nasty-grams, and that the VoIP providers may strike back with legal actions, and congressional intervention. Perhaps the FCC Chairman will be forced to resign in the face of allegations that he is working for the Baby Bells rather than the American people.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at November 29, 2005 02:40 PM

So far, I do not see any of the major interconnected VoIP providers taking down their marketing campaigns. The FCC's order says that "we expect" VoIP companies to stop marketing. It does not use the word "mandate" or "require." The FCC statement, because it looks like hollow dictum.

It seems that the FCC is going to have to send nasty-grams, and that the VoIP providers may strike back with legal action, and congressional intervention. Perhaps the FCC Chairman will resign in the face of allegations that he is working for the Baby Bells rather than the American people.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at November 29, 2005 02:38 PM

I use Skype-In, Skype-Out. Can anyone tell me which dictionary describes "Interconnected VoIP Provider"? Will Skype be Compliant? There is nothing on their site.

Posted by: alex at November 28, 2005 09:57 AM

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