Christopher Null at Today in Tech is reporting that the FCC is finally pushing forward to get the backup requirements published in the Federal Register, after which the 30-day notice for the rule will be in effect. Apparently, Hurricane Ike has pushed the FCC into action again after many hundreds of thousands of people in Texas remained without power and communications for almost a week.
The DC District Appeals court had said several months ago that it wouldn't rule on the cell carriers case, to have the new FCC backup rules thrown out, until the Office of Management and Budget had it's say. And in order for that to happen the requirement had to be placed in the Federal Register. So, the FCC has taken step one and now the government will grind on and it will eventually end up back at the court for a ruling.
Just to review, FCC Ruling 47 CFR PART 12—REDUNDANCY OF COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS was requiring telephony providers have 24 hours of backup run-time at central locations and eight hours at remote sites. Read more about it here.
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