VONAGE CEO SAYS APPOINTMENT OF pANI ADMINISTRATOR CRITICAL TO E911 ROLLOUT

摘要

Vonage urged the FCC to name an administrator to assign the phone number technology VoIP providers need to deploy E-911 capability to nomadic customers. In a Nov. 14 letter to FCC Chmn. Kevin Martin, Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron said availability of pANI-ESQK (pseudo automatic number identification-emergency service query keys) “is an essential gating item for nomadic VoIP E-911 deployment... Most selective routers use 25-year-old technology that's capable of processing no more than a few area codes. As a result, pANI- ESQK is necessary to route a non-regional telephone number through the local selective router. By using pANI-ESQK, a nomadic [VoIP provider] can dynamically assign a number that includes an area code recognized by the relevant selective router, thereby allowing a call to pass through and reach the appropriate [public safety answering point].” nnVonage said Verizon voluntarily made pANI-ESQK elements available but other incumbents have “either not made pANI-ESQK available or have delayed issuing pANI-ESQK for many months, in some cases while they wait for the pANI-ESQK administrator to be assigned.” Citron said the FCC “may not have fully appreciated how this delay in obtaining pANI-ESQK or the absence of an administrator could impact E-911 deployment timetables.”