Glossary of Fields in Network Outage Reporting System

Version 1

July 25, 2016

1 Fields on the Notification Form.. 2

2 Fields on the Initial and Final Report Forms. 8

3 Fields on the Withdraw Report Form.. 17

4 Descriptions of Root Cause, Direct Cause and Contributing Factors. 18

Company - This lists the name of the company filing the outage report. It is the name of the company that the outage inputter used when he/she applied for a Username. The Commission requires providers of wireline, wireless, cable circuit-switched telephony, satellite, paging, and Signaling System 7 (SS7) communications services to submit outage reports regarding disruptions to communication when disruptions meet the reporting thresholds as defined in Part 4 of the Commission's Rules on any facilities provided for a fee to one or more unaffiliated entities by radio, wire, cable, satellite, and/or lightguide: two-way voice and/or paging service, and/or SS7 communications.

Select the company name from the scroll down menu. Typing a letter in the field will highlight the first company starting with that letter in the list.

Type of Reporting Entity - Pick from the scroll down menu the type of entity your company is relative to the incident being reported. The choices are:

Wireline Carrier

Wireless Carrier

Cable telephony provider

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