AT&T Explains Stance on VoIP and 911 Charges
AT&T reiterated its position in a dispute with four Alabama 911 districts over what constitutes interconnected VoIP and whether the FCC should prohibit state and local governments from requiring interconnected VoIP customers pay more in total 911 fees than comparable…
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non-VoIP customers (see 1903290030). That came in a meeting with FCC Wireline Bureau staff. “Declare that where a voice service is transmitted over the last mile in a format other than IP (such as Time Division Multiplexing [TDM]), it cannot qualify as interconnected VoIP,” AT&T asked in Tuesday posting in docket 19-44. “While the Alabama Districts have abandoned their previous position that certain TDM voice services are actually interconnected VoIP, Phone Recovery Services and other plaintiffs in 911 charge litigation have maintained that position.” The FCC should “preempt state and local 911 charge statutes and ordinances that adopt discriminatory rules for billing 911 charges to customers of interconnected VoIP service and non-VoIP telephone services,” the carrier said.