The Alarm Industry Communications Committee said that if the FCC ...
The Alarm Industry Communications Committee said that if the FCC makes their members pay into the Universal Service Fund, the effect would be “devastating.” The group filed in a FCC docket seeking comment on various proposals for USF reform,…
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which include proposals to base USF contributions on individual phone numbers. “The imposition of either an $.85/number or $l/number charge could have devastating effects on a rapidly growing sector of the alarm industry,” the group said. It noted that its service, connecting alarms to a central office, does not touch the PSTN and customers would not be able to make or receive calls. “The transmission between the customer’s premise and the alarm monitoring center is specified by the alarm company, and not the customer,” the filing said. “The panel dials a predetermined number which serves the alarm company and … the panels may not be used to dial the PSTN except with extreme difficulty, if at all.”