AT&T, CenturyLink, now Lumen
Technologies, Intrado, and Verizon Communications will implement compliance
plans to ensure adherence to FCC emergency call rules. Lumen will pay $3.8
million, while Intrado will pay $1.75 million. AT&T will pay a total of
$460,000 to settle two investigations, while Verizon will pay $274,000
settlement.
"The most important phone call you
ever make may be a call to 911,” said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.
"It's vital that phone companies prevent these outages wherever possible
and provide prompt and sufficient notification to 911 call centres when they do
occur."
Last month, T-Mobile USA agreed to settle
an FCC probe for $19.5 million after a massive 2020 outage led to more than
20,000 failed 911 emergency calls.
The settlement was prompted by an FCC
investigation into a more than 12-hour outage in June 2020 that led to
congestion across No. 3 wireless carrier T-Mobile's networks, and caused
"the complete failure of more than 23,000 911 calls."
T-Mobile as part of the consent decree with
the FCC has also agreed to make new commitments to improve 911 outage notices.
An October 2020 FCC report found the
T-Mobile outage disrupted calling and texting services nationwide and access to
data service in some areas. It resulted in at least 250 million total calls
failing. © Reuters
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