PREFACE

 

This document, TIA-1096, Telecommunications – Telephone Terminal Equipment – Connector

Requirements for Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network, has been

established pursuant to the Federal Communication Commission’s (“FCC”) Report and Order

in the 2000 Biennial Review of Part 68 of the Commission’s Rules and Regulations, CC

Docket No. 99-216, FCC 00-400, adopted November 9, 2000 and released December 21,

2000 (“Order” or “R&O”). The Order privatized the process by which technical criteria for the prevention of harm are established for customer premises or terminal equipment that may besold for connection to the telephone network, and for the approval of such equipment to demonstrate compliance with the relevant technical criteria. The Order directed the industry to establish the Administrative Council on Terminal Attachments (“ACTA”) as the balanced and open body that would assume the Commission’s Part 68 role for those items privatized in the Order (Section 68.602). This document was created for submission to ACTA by TIA Subcommittee TR-41.9, Technical Regulatory Considerations. It is intended to fulfill the FCC’s requirement to establish technical criteria for Telephone Terminal Equipment. 

 

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