The FCC extended industry-wide waivers related to 711 routing on ...
The FCC extended industry-wide waivers related to 711 routing on interconnected VoIP, as Qwest and Verizon asked. Last October, VoIP carriers got a six-month waiver of a rule requiring they route the inbound leg of a 711 call to…
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an “appropriate TRS provider.” They also got a six-month waiver of a mandate to install a system for automatically and immediately calling an appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP) upon receiving an emergency 711 call from interconnected VoIP. In a Friday order, the FCC extended the waivers to March 31, 2009. The VoIP carrier waiver applies only to 711 callers whose phone numbers may not reflect their location, the FCC said. And TRS providers with no automatic system for sending interconnected VoIP calls to the right PSAP “must implement a manual system for doing so, to the extent feasible, that accomplishes the proper routing of emergency 711-dialed calls as efficiently as possible,” the FCC said.