House Telecom Subcommittee Passes e911 Internet Emergency Service

Rushing to make floor votes, the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee voted swiftly to approve first drafts of bills that would make it the law of the land that voice-over-Internet-protocol phone service providers have the interconnection access they need to make sure emergency (e911) calls go to a local operator. The bill still must go through some more negotiation before a vote in the full committee.The e911 bill will give VoIP providers (which increasingly include cable operators) interconnection access to existing phone networks at the same prices and terms as wireless providers are given. The FCC had already paved the way for that access in its own rulemaking, but the committee is making it the law rather than simply the FCC rule.
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