[VoiceOps] Reproting VoIP outages FCC ruling

[Ujjval Karihaloo]

Correct and the VoIP services rely on the Internet backbone in general that
causes issues which ITSPs has no control over as well



On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Bret Palsson <bret at getjive.com> wrote:
> This is an interesting move. The way I see it, the FCC isn't going to get
very good data. Say a VoIP provider has one datacenter, and they have an
outage. How will the FCC track who didn't have 911 service at that time?
For all they know, the datacenter went down and that location might not
have access to 911. What about the potentially hundreds of thousands of
endpoints and their location?
> It makes more sense for wireless and wired operators that have localized
towers and central offices. If one of those locations experience an outage,
they have a better idea of who doesn't have access to 911, geographically
 speaking.
> Another scenario: What happens when a customers ISP goes down? It's not
the job of the VoIP provider to monitor that connection to say it's down.
> I really don't think they will get the data they expect with this ruling.
The only good data they will get is, provider A has more uptime than
provider B.
> Other opinions?
> -Bret
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> On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
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> What is the impact of this ?
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57378872-93/fcc-requires-voip-providers-to-report-service-outages/
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