As Consumer Complaints Keep Streaming In, FCC Should Not Automatically Approve Verizon's Voice Link

Public Knowledge officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to take Verizon's application to replace its traditional copper-based network with its fixed wireless Voice Link service off of the FCC's streamlined authorization procedures.

Right now, Verizon's application is set to be automatically approved if the FCC takes no action by the end of August, but by that point we won't even have all of the relevant feedback from the public or Verizon yet to inform the FCC's decision. Especially considering what a big deal Verizon's post-Sandy Voice Link deployment has turned out to be, for Fire Island and for any community that could be hit by a natural disaster (hint: all of them), this isn't a decision the FCC should rush to make before it even has all of the facts.