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Power Emergency
In addition, VOIP service relies on customer premises equipment which depends on a continuous power supply to remain reliable. Thus, to the extent that customers replace their conventional voice service with VoIP service, customers may not be aware that VoIP service could be terminated during a power outage, absent power back-up systems present on the PSTN.
-- Order instituting investigation on the Commission's own motion to determine the extent to which the public utility telephone service known as Voice over Internet Protocol should be exempted from regulatory requirements, CA PUC February 11, 2004 http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/published/agenda_decision/33960.htm
In order to formulate an informed, consistent regulatory policy, the Commission would like to obtain information about VOIP activity in Michigan . The Commission, therefore, requests comments on VOIP activity in Michigan on the following topics that may be affected by both state and federal law:
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h. Other technical issues, such as internet virus potential, power outage risks, consumer protections including privacy, quality of service, and accessibility by local, state and federal law enforcement.
-- -- U-14073 - Commission's Own Motion (investigation of VOIP) - (MI PUC 3/16/2004 ) HTML | PDF
