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On July 23, 2008, a new 911 statute was entered into law. The “New and Emerging Technologies (NET) 911 Improvement Act of 2008” (the NET 911 Act) requires the FCC to enact rules implementing the Act’s provisions within 90 days of the effective date of the legislation, or October 21, 2008. The legislation was designed [...]
Technorati Tags: FCC,Telecommunications,Audio bridging
Reregulation is a rarely used term in the U.S. telecommunications lexicon. The term though is being popularized in the banking and airline industries. Even the tough former American Airlines CEO Robert Crandall in April 2008 encouraged some reregulation of the airlines: “Adding some sensible regulations …needed to give our airlines opportunities for [...]
Technorati Tags: FCC,VOIP
On April 9, 2008, the FCC released an order, in an obscure enforcement bureau matter, declaring that a provider’s VoIP peering service was a “telecommunications service” subject to Title II regulation. In the order, In the Matter of Compass Global Inc., the Commission used its rationale of the 2004 AT&T IP-in-the-Middle calling card [...]
