All: It is in 47 CFR, but not Part 68, but Part 63.
It has partial roots in the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) Rules and Regulations regarding Service Outages and Reporting. If a service outage of a certain number of customers, or of a certain type, exceeds a certain duration, it must be reported to the FCC, along with Root Cause Analysis, etc. See Title 47 CFR 63, Section 100 [47CFR63.100] http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin get-cfr.cgi?TITLE=47&PART=63&SECTION=100&YEAR=2001&TYPE=TEXT If this link came thru too broken, one can link to it from the FCC OET's Rules and Regulations page http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/rules/ and click on "Outage Reporting Rules Section 63.100" William T. Sykes Lucent Technologies EH&S Product Safety/Conformance Manager Room 7B-516A 600-700 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 (908)582-6937 From: Peter L. Tarver [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Should telephones still work during power loss? Marko - The use of electric power generators in COs existed before Part 68. If any regulation is to be found, it will not likely be in 47 CFR, and isn't, according to the searches I just completed on the terms "reliable," "reliability." Never underestimate the motivation of a positive revenue stream. (Early users of ISDN in the US may wish to quibble with this argument.) If someone can locate any such regulation, please come forward. Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE [email protected] > From: Marko Radojicic > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:15 PM > > > I can't imagine that the RBOCs are investing > millions and millions of dollars a year to build > and maintain expensive battery back-up systems > with on-site diesel generators at many sites > without there being some kind of regulatory > requirement. I suspect it will be buried > somewhere in the FCC CFR in the US and in similar > places in other countries. > > ...Marko > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
