47 CFR 4.5(a) defines an outage as a significant degradation in the ability of an end user to establish and maintain a channel of communications as a result of failure or degradation in the performance of a communications provider's network.

Checked 2026-09-30

Vendor
not restricted
Product
not restricted
Subsystem
FCC Part 4 outage reporting
Deployment
n-a
Region
us
Release range
as amended through 89 FR 2513 (2024-01-16)
Checked
2026-09-30

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Contact center business continuity: source note contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def,
  title  = {Contact center business continuity: source note contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def},
  note   = {Source note contact-center-business-continuity-fcc-outage-def, checked 2026-09-30}
}

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