Post by Logan on Jul 8, 2016 3:48:14 GMT -6
The Federal Communications Commission has fined GCI $2.4 million for failing to provide reliable 911 service in portions of Alaska.
According to an email from FCC spokesman Will Wiquist, the five outages took place between August 2008 and April 2016. GCI exacerbated the outages, the FCC said, by failing to appropriately report them to 911 call centers or the FCC.
“We’ve had to address situations with outages before,” Wiquist said by phone. “It’s not unheard of, but we take them seriously, and we think it’s important to include both a fine and a compliance (order).”
“The FCC is really demonstrating to carriers that a robust 911 system is a priority,” said Heather Handyside, a spokeswoman for GCI. “That’s the message that they sent.”
Read more: juneauempire.com/state/2016-07-07/fcc-fines-gci-24m-911-failures
According to an email from FCC spokesman Will Wiquist, the five outages took place between August 2008 and April 2016. GCI exacerbated the outages, the FCC said, by failing to appropriately report them to 911 call centers or the FCC.
“We’ve had to address situations with outages before,” Wiquist said by phone. “It’s not unheard of, but we take them seriously, and we think it’s important to include both a fine and a compliance (order).”
“The FCC is really demonstrating to carriers that a robust 911 system is a priority,” said Heather Handyside, a spokeswoman for GCI. “That’s the message that they sent.”
Read more: juneauempire.com/state/2016-07-07/fcc-fines-gci-24m-911-failures