Digital Common Sense

Deadline Passes for Internet Phone Service
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer Mon Nov 28, 9:39 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Companies that provide Internet-based phone service could be barred from signing up new customers in at least some areas for failing to meet a federal mandate to provide reliable emergency 911 service in all their markets.
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The deadline to show the government where enhanced 911, or E911, is available was Monday. However, companies and the
Federal Communications Commission were tightlipped, refusing to disclose details of compliance reports.

It was widely expected that no company would meet the deadline since the FCC had given them only 120 days to comply. The VON Coalition, an industry group, has said as much. The coalition did its own survey and estimated that about two-thirds of Internet phone users would have enhanced 911 by the deadline.

Filed by Ken at 10:59 pm under Unified Communications