ACA Wants Voluntary Network Outage Rules

The American Cable Association called for creation of an industry working group to craft voluntary network outage reporting rules in lieu of regulatory mandates by the Federal Communications Commission, in response to concerns raised by many stakeholders that the FCC lacks authority to impose such requirements on broadband and interconnected VoIP providers.

“With FCC legal authority to act far from settled, the wisest course now is for the FCC to endorse the establishment of an industry working group that will allow companies that own and operate the sophisticated networks at issue to have their subject-matter experts work through the many technical difficulties identified in the record of this proceeding,” ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said.